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Nicholas
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Usage
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Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Creative spelling (also English) of Nikolas [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Nikolás
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicholas |
| Genitive: | Nicholas' |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicholas |
| Genitive: | Nicholaksen |
| Partitive: | Nicholasta |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicholas |
| Genitive: | Nicholas' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicholas |
| Genitive: | Nicholas' / Nicholas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 96 people were named Nicholas (percentage of first or only given name: 35 %) [6]
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[7] |
  |
1888 | 2859 | 0 | 5 | 1888 | 2854 |
| Denmark[8] |
 |
1615 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
1615 | n.a. |
| Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
1568 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1568 |
 Iceland[10] |
  |
30 | 37 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greenland[11] |
|
12 | 13 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
|
1354 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
1354 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no