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Regin m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Regin f for the female version.

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Reginn [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Variant form of Reginus (see also -in) [2] [5]

Related Names

Regin ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Reginsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Reginsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Regin
Genitive: Regins
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Regin
Accusative: Regin
Dative: Regini
Genitive: Regins
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Regin
Accusative: Regin
Dative: Regni
Genitive: Regins
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Regin
Genitive: Regins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Regin
Genitive: Regins

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Regin Dahl (5 November 1918 – 29 March 2007), Faroese author and music composer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Regin m (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [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&
Denmark Denmark[9]
135
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 135
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[10]
12 32 0 5 12 27
Greenland Greenland[11]
5 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 2
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 1
Norway Norway[14]
17
n.a.
 5
n.a.
 12
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Regin.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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