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Preston
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Origin and Meaning
English name
Transferred use of the surname, originally a place name:
Combination of Old English prēost = 'priest' and TUN [1] [2]
Related Names
| Preston | ♂ |   |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Preston |
| Genitive: | Prestons |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Preston |
| Genitive: | Prestonin |
| Partitive: | Prestonia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Preston |
| Genitive: | Prestons |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Preston |
| Genitive: | Prestons |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
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[3] |
 |
17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 30 |
| Finland[4] |
|
n.a. |
26 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
26 |
| Denmark[5] |
 |
5 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
| Norway[6] |
|
6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
6 | n.a. |
 Greenland[7] |
  |
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Preston.
References
- ↑ A. D. Mills: Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/