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Klaus

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) German short form of Nikolaus (see Nikolaos) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Short form of Claudius [2]

Related Names

Chlaus ♂
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 Danish
Clauos ♂
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 Old Swedish
Claus ♂
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Clauß ♂
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 Danish
Clauus ♂
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 Old Swedish
Klaus ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish
Kláus ♂
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 Faroese

See also Kalause, Klas, Klavs, Launo
For female forms see Klausette, Klausine (and Claudia)

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Klausen Denmark Norway
Klaussen Denmark Norway
Klausson Sweden

Female

Klausdatter Denmark Norway
Klausdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Klaus
Genitive: Klaus' / Klauses
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Klaus
Genitive: Klausin / Klaun / Klauksen
Partitive: Klausia / Klauta / Klausta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Klaus
Genitive: Klaus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Klaus
Genitive: Klaus'

Name Days

Finland Finland

7 July

Norway Norway

23 November

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

7 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Namesakes

  • Klaus Hagerup (born 5 March 1946), Norwegian author


Gnbox image.png The German pronunciation of Klaus can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de.

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&
Denmark Denmark[9]
9058
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 9058
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 4086 0 0
n.a.
 4086
Sweden Sweden[11]
577 1072 0 0 577 1072
Greenland Greenland[12]
80 231
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
4 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
767
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 767
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Klaus (m)


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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