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Nathan

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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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]

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See also Nantta, Tani

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nathansson Iceland

Female

Nathansdóttir Iceland

Combinations

Name
Element    		 Example
ELI see Nathanael
JO see Jonathan

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nathan
Genitive: Nathans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Nathan
Genitive: Nathanin
Partitive: Nathania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Nathan
Accusative: Nathan
Dative: Nathan
Genitive: Nathans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nathan
Genitive: Nathans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nathan
Genitive: Nathans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 64 people were named Nathan (percentage of first or only given name: 39 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[7]
742 1068 8 19 734 1049
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 509 0 0
n.a.
 509
Greenland Greenland[9]
32 394
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
226
n.a.
 2
n.a.
 224
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
17 24
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 313
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 Nathan (m) Sources: [7][10][12][8]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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