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Klas
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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Low German short form of Niklas (Low German form of Klaus) [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
| Claas | ♂ |   |
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| Claes | ♂ |  |
 
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| Claés | ♂ | |
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| Claës | ♂ | |
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| Clas | ♂ |  |
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| Klaas | ♂ |  |
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| Klaes | ♂ | |
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| Klaës | ♂ |  |
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| Klas | ♂ |  |
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See also Kilâse, Klabbe, Klasse
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Klasen |
|
| Klason |
|
| Klassen |
|
| Klasson |
|
Female
| Klasdatter |
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| Klasdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Klas |
| Genitive: | Klas' |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Klas |
| Genitive: | Klasin |
| Partitive: | Klasia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Klas |
| Genitive: | Klas' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Klas |
| Genitive: | Klas'/Klas |
Name Days
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7 July |
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7 July |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Sweden:
- Västergötland (19th century) see map [5]
- Södermanland (19th century) see map [5]
Namesakes
- Klas Kristersson Horn (1517-1566), Swedish admiral
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson, 27 October 1844 – 20 February 1916, Swedish author, journalist, politician and Nobel laureate
(Peace, 1908)
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[6] |
|
5930 | 13471 | 0 | 4 | 5930 | 13467 |
| Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
1108 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1108 |
 Greenland[8] |
  |
0 | 91 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Denmark[9] |
|
29 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
29 | n.a. |
 Iceland[10] |
  |
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[11] |
|
146 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
146 | 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
Sources: Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Klas (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no