Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Nestor

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of the Greek name Νεστωρ (Nestor)

Greek nostos = 'homecoming' [1] [2] [3]

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Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nestor
Genitive: Nestors
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Nestor
Genitive: Nestorin
Partitive: Nestoria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nestor
Genitive: Nestors
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nestor
Genitive: Nestors

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 463 people were named Nestor (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [5]

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&
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 4540 0 0
n.a.
 4540
Sweden Sweden[8]
151 436 0 2 151 434
Denmark Denmark[9]
46
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 46
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 42
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Nestor (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Nestor (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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