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Kelvin
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Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
English name taken from a Scottish river which runs through Glasgow [1] [2]
The river name probably derives from Gaelic caol abhainn = 'narrow water' [3]
Related Names
| Kelvin | ♂ |   |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kelvin |
| Genitive: | Kelvins |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kelvin |
| Genitive: | Kelvinin |
| Partitive: | Kelviniä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kelvin |
| Genitive: | Kelvins |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kelvin |
| Genitive: | Kelvins |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
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& | |
| Sweden[5] |
 |
333 | 393 | 0 | 2 | 333 | 391 |
| Denmark[6] |
 |
128 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
128 | n.a. |
| Finland[7] |
 |
n.a. |
78 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
78 |
| Greenland[8] |
  |
6 | 9 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[9] |
  |
3 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[10] |
|
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
77 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ A. D. Mills: Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no