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Nathan
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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
Icelandic
Origin and Meaning
1) Latin spelling of Ναθαν (Nathan), a Greek form of the Hebrew name נָתָן (Natan) = 'he (God) has given' [1] [2]
2) Short form of Jonathan [1] [3]
3) Short form of Nathanael [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
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Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| ELI | see Nathanael |
| JO | see Jonathan |
Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nathan |
| Genitive: | Nathans |
| - Finnish |
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| Nominative: | Nathan |
| Genitive: | Nathanin |
| Partitive: | Nathania |
| - Icelandic |
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| Nominative: | Nathan |
| Accusative: | Nathan |
| Dative: | Nathan |
| Genitive: | Nathans |
| - Norwegian |
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| Nominative: | Nathan |
| Genitive: | Nathans |
| - Swedish |
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| Nominative: | Nathan |
| Genitive: | Nathans |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Namesakes
- Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom, 15 January 1866 – 12 July 1931, Swedish clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden, and Nobel laureate
(Peace, 1930)
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[6] |
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0 | 7 | 547 | 827 |
| Norway[7] |
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0 | n.a. | 254 | n.a. |
| Denmark[8] |
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0 | n.a. | 178 | n.a. |
| Iceland[9] |
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0 | 0 | 11 | 13 |
| Finland[10] |
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0 | 0 | n.a. | 368 |
| #: 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi