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Male Name
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Younger form of Magni [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Nordic form of Magnus
Related Names
See also Mange, Mankan
For female forms see Magna
Male
Magnesen
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Magneson
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Magnessen
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Magnesson
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Magnessøn
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Magnesøn
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Female
Magnedatter
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Magnedotter
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Magnesdatter
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Magnesdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Magne
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Genitive: |
Magnes
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Magne
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Genitive: |
Magnen
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Partitive: |
Magnea
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Magne
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Genitive: |
Magnes
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Magne
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Genitive: |
Magnes
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Name Day
Norway
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18 November
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- After the Protestant Reformation:
- 1920-1930:
- 1940-1970:
- Sweden:
Namesakes
- Magne Furuholmen (born 1 November 1962), Norwegian musician (A-ha)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 502 people were named Magne (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %) [5]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[6] |
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1764 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
1762 |
n.a. |
Sweden[7] |
|
207 |
590 |
0 |
0 |
207 |
590 |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
43 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
43 |
Iceland[9] |
|
1 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
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0 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
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7977 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
7977 |
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
Sources: [7][6][11][8]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no