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Roy

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Anglicised form of Ruadh [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Later it has often been associated with the French word roi (Old French roy) = 'king' [1] [2] [5] [3] [6]

3) Pet form of Ronald (see Ragnvaldr) [7]

4) Anglicised form of a Gaelic name meaning 'black' [8] [6]

Related Names

Roj ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Roy ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Leroy, Royer, Roymond

For female forms see Roya

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Roy
Genitive: Roys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Roy
Genitive: Royn
Partitive: Royta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Roy
Genitive: Roys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Roy
Genitive: Roys

Name Days

Norway Norway

3 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

7 September

Sweden Sweden

7 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Roy Jacobsen (born 26 December 1954), Norwegian novelist and short-story writer

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 Sweden[9]
2352 4671 0 13 2352 4658
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 1312 0 0
n.a.
 1312
Denmark Denmark[11]
200
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 199
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
5 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
7254
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 7254
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

Name statistics for Roy (m) Sources: [9][11][14][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Roy (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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