Nicolaus

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin form of Nikolaos [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Nikolaos

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nicolaus
Genitive: Nicolaus'
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nicolaus
Genitive: Nicolaus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nicolaus
Genitive: Nicolaus' / Nicolaus

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 143 people were named Nicolaus (percentage of first or only given name: 9 %) [8]

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 Sweden[10]
37 181 0 0 37 181
Denmark Denmark[11]
12
n.a.
0
n.a.
12
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
7 0 0
n.a.
7
Norway Norway[13]
4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
4
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
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 Nicolaus (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Nicolaus (m)


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/