Kristin f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Kristin m for the male version.

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Kristín (see also -stin) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Christina

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kristinarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Kristinardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kristin
Genitive: Kristins
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Kristin
Accusative: Kristina
Dative: Kristini
Genitive: Kristinar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kristin
Genitive: Kristinin
Partitive: Kristiniä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kristin
Accusative: Kristinu
Dative: Kristinu
Genitive: Kristinar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kristin
Genitive: Kristins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kristin
Genitive: Kristins

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

24 July

Norway Norway

24 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Kristin was a heavy storm in Norway in September 2005.
  • Kristin Lavransdatter, name of the main character in a trilogy of historical novels written by Sigrid Undset: Kransen (The Wreath), first published in 1920, Husfrue (The Wife), published in 1921, and Korset (The Cross), published in 1922.

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[11]
4805 15659 4805 15655 0 4
Denmark Denmark[12]
382
n.a.
371
n.a.
11
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
722
n.a.
720
n.a.
2
Iceland Iceland[14]
8 19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
4 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
17088
n.a.
17088
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[11][12][16][13]:Name statistics for Kristin (f)

Sources: [11] [12] [16] [13]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[16]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Kristin (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Kristin (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Kristin (f)


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no