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Male Name
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish form of Knut [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Knútr
Male
Knudinpoika
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Knudsen
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Knudson
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Knudssen
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Knudsson
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Knudssøn
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Knudßøn (17th century)
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Knudsøn
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Female
Knuddatter
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Knudintytär
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Knudsdatter
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Knudsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Knud
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Genitive: |
Knuds
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Knud
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Genitive: |
Knudin
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Partitive: |
Knudia
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Knud
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Genitive: |
Knuds
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Knud
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Genitive: |
Knuds
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Name Days
Denmark
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7 January
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Denmark
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10 July
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Knud Kristensen (26 October 1880 – 28 September 1962), Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 7 November 1945 to 13 November 1947
- Knud Christian Frederik Michael (27 July 1900 – 14 June 1976), Hereditary Prince of Denmark
- Knud Pedersen (26 December 1925 – 18 December 2014), Danish artist and resistance man
Trivia
- Knud was a heavy storm in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in September 2018.
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& |
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Denmark[9] |
|
12709 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
12709 |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
262 |
816 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
|
141 |
275 |
0 |
0 |
141 |
275 |
Finland[12] |
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n.a. |
37 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
37 |
Iceland[13] |
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1 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
158 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
158 |
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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References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Niels Cl. Hansen: Bøndernavnene i Ribe Amt i 16. Århundrede (1933)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables