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Niels

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish younger form of Niglæs (see Niklas) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Niels ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Níels ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Nielß ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish

See also Nielseraq, Nils, Nilsine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nielsarson Iceland
Nielsen Denmark Norway
Nielson Old Swedish Sweden
Nielssen Norway
Nielsson Old Swedish Sweden
Nielssøn Old Swedish
Nielsøn Old Swedish

Female

Nielsardóttir Iceland
Nielsdatter Denmark Norway
Nielsdotter Old Swedish Norway Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Niels
Genitive: Niels'
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Niels
Accusative: Niels
Dative: Nielsi
Genitive: Niels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Niels
Genitive: Nielsin
Partitive: Nielsiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Niels
Accusative: Niels
Dative: Nielsi
Genitive: Nielsar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Niels
Genitive: Niels'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Niels
Genitive: Niels' / Niels

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Namesakes

  • Niels (circa  1065 – 25 June 1134), King of Denmark from 1104 to 1134
  • Niels Ebbesen (1308 - 2 November 1340), Danish squire and national hero
  • Niels Juel (8 May 1629 – 8 April 1697), Danish admiral
  • Niels Ryberg Finsen, 15 December 1860 – 24 September 1904, Faroese physician and scientist and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physiology or Medicine, 1903)
  • Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962), Danish physicist and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physics, 1922)
  • Niels Kaj Jerne, 23 December 1911 – 7 October 1994, Danish immunologist and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physiology or Medicine, 1984)
  • Aage Niels Bohr, 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009, Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physics, 1975)

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 356 people were named Niels (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %) [10]

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&
Denmark Denmark[12]
34127
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 34126
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[13]
523 1110 0 0 523 1110
Greenland Greenland[14]
474 1185
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 206 0 0
n.a.
 206
Iceland Iceland[16]
6 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
612
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 612
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 Niels (m) Sources: [13][12][17][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Niels (m) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Niels (m)


References

  1. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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