Kort

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Low German variant spelling of Kord [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Kord

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kortsen Denmark Norway
Kortssen Norway
Kortsson Iceland Sweden

Female

Kortsdatter Denmark Norway
Kortsdotter Sweden
Kortsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kort
Genitive: Korts
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kort
Accusative: Kort
Dative: Kort
Genitive: Korts
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kort
Genitive: Korts
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kort
Genitive: Korts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Namesakes

  • Kort Rogge (sometimes written Konrad Rogge, Cort Rogge, Conradus Roggo gothus, Conradus Roggo de Holmis, ca. 1425 - 1501), Swedish bishop in Strängnäs 1479-1501

Trivia

  • Kort is an IKEA product name (art card). The name is not based on the given name though, but on the Swedish vocabulary word kort = 'card', 'picture', 'photo' [8]

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&
Iceland Iceland[9]
2 18
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
6
n.a.
0
n.a.
6
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
0 2 0 2 0 0
Norway Norway[12]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[14]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Kort.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/