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Nikolai
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Usage
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Nicolai [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Nicolai
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Nikolainpoika |
|
| Nikolaisen |
|
| Nikolaison |
|
| Nikolaissen |
|
| Nikolaisson |
|
| Nikolaissøn |
|
| Nikolaisøn |
|
Female
| Nikolaidatter |
|
| Nikolaidotter |
|
| Nikolaintytär |
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| Nikolaisdatter |
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| Nikolaisdotter |
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| Nikolaisdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nikolai |
| Genitive: | Nikolais |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nikolai |
| Genitive: | Nikolain |
| Partitive: | Nikolaita |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nikolai |
| Accusative: | Nikolai |
| Dative: | Nikolai |
| Genitive: | Nikolais |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nikolai |
| Genitive: | Nikolais |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nikolai |
| Genitive: | Nikolais |
Name Days
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6 December |
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6 December |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Nordafjells, e. g. Leksvik in Nord-Trøndelag and Ibestad in Troms after 1850 [1]
- Sweden:
Namesakes
- Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (8 September 1783 – 2 September 1872), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician
- Nikolai William Alexander Frederik (born 28 August 1999), Prins til Danmark (Prince of Denmark)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 285 people were named Nikolai (percentage of first or only given name: 48 %) [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[6] |
  |
n.a. |
16275 | n.a. |
9 | n.a. |
16266 |
| Denmark[7] |
  |
2001 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2001 | n.a. |
| Sweden[8] |
 |
366 | 876 | 0 | 0 | 366 | 876 |
| Greenland[9] |
  |
16 | 48 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Iceland[10] |
|
11 | 16 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[11] |
|
4267 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
4267 | 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: Top List Ranking
Sources: [12]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables