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Hjalti

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name and byname

Old Norse hjalti = 'man from Hjaltland (= Shetland)' (see also HJALT) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The place name probably derives from Old Norse hjalt = 'hilt (of a sword)' [1] [2] [4] [6]

Hilt of a Viking Sword (replica)
Hilt of a Viking Sword (replica)
Image by Søren Niedziella,[7]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Helte ♂
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 Anglo-Scandinavian
Hialti ♂
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 Old Norse
Hjalta ♀
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 Icelandic
Hjalte ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Hjalti ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Faroese Icelandic Old Norse

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hjaltason Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Hjaltadóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see HJALT (name element)

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Hjalti
Accusative: Hjalta
Dative: Hjalta
Genitive: Hjalta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Hjalti
Accusative: Hjalta
Dative: Hjalta
Genitive: Hjalta

Further Information

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Iceland Iceland[10]
451 534
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[11]
49
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 49
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
8 10 0 0 8 10
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 2 0 0
n.a.
 2
Norway Norway[14]
18
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 18
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Hjalti (m) Sources: [16]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  5. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Søren Niedziella, source & license
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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