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Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Younger short form of Pridbjørn [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Pridbor
Male
Female
Prebensdatter
|
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Prebensdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Preben
|
Genitive: |
Prebens
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Preben
|
Genitive: |
Prebenin
|
Partitive: |
Prebeniä
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Preben
|
Accusative: |
Preben
|
Dative: |
Preben
|
Genitive: |
Prebens
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Preben
|
Genitive: |
Prebens
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Preben
|
Genitive: |
Prebens
|
Name Day
Norway
|
31 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Preben Lerdorff Rye (23 May 1917 – 15 June 1995), Danish film actor
- Preben de Neergaard (né Preben Rathsack, 2 May 1920 - 22 July 1990), Danish stage and film actor
- Preben Hempel Munthe (15 October 1922 - 3 January 2013), Norwegian economist
- Preben Wilhjelm (born 30 January 1935), Danish physicist and politician
- Preben Elkjær Larsen (born 11 September 1957), Danish footballer
Trivia
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[6] |
|
10435 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
10435 |
n.a. |
Sweden[7] |
|
161 |
360 |
0 |
0 |
161 |
360 |
Greenland[8] |
|
36 |
60 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
24 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
24 |
Iceland[10] |
|
1 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
2137 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2137 |
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
Sources: [7][6][11][9]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no