Ken

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Kenneth [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Cen
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Cenn
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Ken
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Kenn
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Kenny

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ken
Genitive: Kens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ken
Genitive: Kenin
Partitive: Keniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ken
Genitive: Kens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ken
Genitive: Kens

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

11 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional 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 Sweden[6]
821 1456 3 9 818 1447
Denmark Denmark[7]
1269
n.a.
2
n.a.
1267
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
404 0 0
n.a.
404
Greenland Greenland[9]
13 105
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
1544
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
1544
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

Name statistics for Ken (m) Sources: [6][7][11][8]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Ken (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no