Lance

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Usage

English name

1) English form (via Old French) of Lanzo ^[1]

2) Old French lance (from Latin lancea) = 'lance' (weapon) ^[1]

3) Short form of Lancelot ^[1]

♂

- Danish
Nominative:	Lance
Genitive:	Lances

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Lance
Genitive:	Lances

- Swedish
Nominative:	Lance
Genitive:	Lances

Sweden: In January 1973, 16 people were named Lance (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) ^[2]

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Country	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[3]	51	97	0	5	51	92
Denmark^[4]	21	n.a.	0	n.a.	21	n.a.
Finland^[5]	n.a.	34	0	0	n.a.	34
Iceland^[6]	1	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway^[7]	34	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	34	n.a.
Greenland^[8]	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 Lance.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ 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
↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/