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Italian name of uncertain origin and meaning
1) Most likely, it was of Germanic origin, possibly connected to the elvish Nibelungen = 'sons of the mist' [1] [2]
2) Later it was altered by association with Greek Neapolis = 'new town', the Greek form of the Italian town of Napoli (English Naples) [1] [3] [2] [4]
3) Sometimes it was associated with the Greek words nápæ = 'dell' + Greek léōn = 'lion' [2]
Lion Image by Kevin Pluck,[5] licensed under Creative Commons |
Napoleon | ♂ |
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Napolion | ♂ |
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For female forms see Napolea
Napoleonsson |
Napoleonsdóttir |
- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Napoleon |
Genitive: | Napoleons |
- Faroese | |
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Nominative: | Napoleon |
Accusative: | Napoleon |
Dative: | Napoleoni |
Genitive: | Napoleons |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Napoleon |
Genitive: | Napoleonin |
Partitive: | Napoleonia |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Napoleon |
Genitive: | Napoleons |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Napoleon |
Genitive: | Napoleons |
Country | Commonness
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& | |
Sweden[8] |
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61 | 849 | 0 | 5 | 61 | 844 |
Finland[9] |
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n.a. |
140 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
140 |
Denmark[10] |
|
7 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
7 | n.a. |
Iceland[11] |
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1 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
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8 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
8 | n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
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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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Napoleon.