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Male Name
Usage
Old Norse
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Måns [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Måns
Male
Monsen
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Monssen
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Female
Monsdatter
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Grammar
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Mons
|
Genitive: |
Mons'
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Mons
|
Genitive: |
Mons' / Mons
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Name Day
Norway
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16 April
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
- Norway: After the Protestant Reformation until ca 1935 [2]
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Mons was a heavy storm in Norway in December 2014.
- In Norway, matmons (lit. 'food Mons') is used for a gourmand/glutton [3]
- In Norway, mons can be a name for a male cat [3]
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& |
---|
Sweden[4] |
|
44 |
56 |
0 |
0 |
44 |
56 |
Denmark[5] |
|
10 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
9 |
n.a. |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
2 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
2 |
Norway[7] |
|
424 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
424 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [4][5][7][6]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/