Mons

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Måns [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Måns

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Monsen Norway
Monssen Norway

Female

Monsdatter Norway

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Mons
Genitive: Mons'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Mons
Genitive: Mons' / Mons

Name Day

Norway Norway

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

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[4]
44 56 0 0 44 56
Denmark Denmark[5]
10
n.a.
1
n.a.
9
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
2 0 0
n.a.
2
Norway Norway[7]
424
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
424
n.a.
Greenland 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

Name statistics for Mons (m) Sources: [4][5][7][6]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Mons (m)


References

  1. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/