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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Michel f for the female version.
Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) French form of Michael [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) Creative spelling of Mickel (see Mikkel) [6] [7] [8]
3) South German pet form of Michael [1]
Related Names
For female forms see Michelle f
Male
Michelsen
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Michelson
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Michelssen
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Michelsson
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Michelssøn
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Michelsøn
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Female
Micheldatter
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Michelsdatter
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Michelsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Michel
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Genitive: |
Michels
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Michel
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Genitive: |
Michelin
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Partitive: |
Micheliä
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Michel
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Genitive: |
Michels
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Michel
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Genitive: |
Michels
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Michel has been used as the main character name for the German translation of Astrid Lindgren's book Emil i Lönneberga, despite the name not being commonly used in Sweden and historically not at all in the Region of Småland (see below).
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[12] |
|
1549 |
2889 |
15 |
82 |
1534 |
2807 |
Denmark[13] |
|
643 |
n.a. |
30 |
n.a. |
613 |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
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n.a. |
921 |
n.a. |
18 |
n.a. |
903 |
Iceland[15] |
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6 |
17 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
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207 |
n.a. |
8 |
n.a. |
199 |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
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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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[12][13][16][14]:
Sources: [12] [13] [16] [14]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Michel (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ Niels Cl. Hansen: Bøndernavnene i Ribe Amt i 16. Århundrede (1933)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/