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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Latin spelling of the Greek name Ιρις (Iris)
Greek ἴρις (iris) = 'rainbow' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10], originally from Greek eírein = 'to speak', 'to say' [10]
The name is often associated with the membrane in the eye and the genus of flowering plants which derive their names from the same Greek source. [4] [2] [3] [7] [8] [9] [10]
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Rainbow on the Faroe Islands
Image by Erik Christensen,[11] License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA |
Related Names
See also Aris, Eiris, Irkka
Male
Irisarson
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Female
Irisardóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Iris
|
Genitive: |
Iris'
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Iris
|
Accusative: |
Iris
|
Dative: |
Iris
|
Genitive: |
Irisar
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Iris
|
Genitive: |
Iriksen
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Partitive: |
Iristä
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Iris
|
Accusative: |
Irisi
|
Dative: |
Irisi
|
Genitive: |
Irisar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Iris
|
Genitive: |
Iris'
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Iris
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Genitive: |
Iris' / Iris
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Name Days
Faroe Islands
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24 May
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Norway
|
24 May
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
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14 November
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Sweden
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10 February
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Iris is an IKEA product name (oven glove/pot holder/tea towel) [14]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[15] |
|
6325 |
12407 |
6315 |
12389 |
10 |
18 |
Finland[16] |
|
n.a. |
4860 |
n.a. |
4860 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[17] |
|
1070 |
n.a. |
1068 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Iceland[18] |
|
13 |
19 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[19] |
|
5 |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[20] |
|
1779 |
n.a. |
1779 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [15][17][20][16]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [21]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Erik Christensen, source & license
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables