Knut

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Knútr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

In Sweden, Knut has sometimes been used to name the last child of the family (Swedish knut = 'knot' meaning 'stop') [3]


Knut.jpg


Related Names

See Knútr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Knutsen Norway
Knutson Sweden
Knutsson Old Swedish Sweden

Female

Knutsdatter Norway
Knutsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Knut
Genitive: Knuts
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Knut
Genitive: Knutin
Partitive: Knutia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Knut
Genitive: Knuts
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Knut
Genitive: Knuts

Name Days

Norway Norway

7 January

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

13 January

Sweden Sweden

13 January

Further Information

Tjugondag jul (Swedish, 'Twentieth Day Yule'), or Tjugondag Knut (Swedish) / Tjuendedags-Knut (Norwegian) is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Norway on 13 January. Christmas trees are taken down and the candies and cookies that decorated the tree are eaten.

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Knut Hamsun (né Knud Pedersen, 4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952), Norwegian author and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Literature, 1920)
  • Knut Rokne, in the US known as Knute Kenneth Rockne (4 March 1888 - 31 April 1931), American football player and coach with Norwegian roots
  • Knut Nystedt (3 September 1915 – 8 December 2014), Norwegian orchestral and choral composer
  • Knut Andersen (9 May 1931 – 17 June 2019), Norwegian film director
  • Knut Robert Faldbakken (born 31 August 1941), Norwegian novelist
  • Knut Knudsen (born 12 October 1950), Norwegian cyclist

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[9]
4473 14130 11 56 4462 14074
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
1429 0 0
n.a.
1429
Denmark Denmark[11]
130
n.a.
0
n.a.
130
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
1 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
23460
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
23460
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 Knut (m) Sources: [9][11][14][10]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Knut (m) Sources: [15]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Knut (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Knut (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Knut (m)


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. details see Name Statistic tables