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