Ib

Male Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic

Origin and Meaning

Danish variant form of Jep

Related Names

See Japer

Patronyms

• Danish: Ibsen (♂), Ibsdatter (♀)
• Norwegian: Ibsen (♂)

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 15th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1930-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: København, Lolland-Falster

Namesakes

• Ib Eisner (19 May 1925 – 7 April 2003), Danish artist
  
• Ib Hansen (22 December 1928 - 24 February 2013), Danish opera singer and actor
  
• Ib Nørholm (* 24 January 1931), Danish composer and organist
  
• Ib Ohlsson (* 1935 ), Danish graphic artist and illustrator
  
• Ib Henning Madsen (* 12 April 1942), Danish mathematician
  
• Ib Michael (né Ib Michael Rasmussen, * 17 January 1945), Danish novelist and poet
  
• Ib Mohr Olsen (* 23 November 1965), former Faroese football player

Statistics

Name Count per Country

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Denmark		0	n.a.	6696	n.a.
Sweden		2	5	164	313
Norway		0	n.a.	94	n.a.
Finland		0	0	n.a.	22
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ib.

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