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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish, Old Danish and younger form of Rúni [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Rúni
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Rune
|
Genitive: |
Runes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Rune
|
Genitive: |
Runen
|
Partitive: |
Runea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Rune
|
Genitive: |
Runes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Rune
|
Genitive: |
Runes
|
Name Days
Norway
|
2 June
|
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
28 February
|
Sweden
|
24 November
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Karl Rune Larsson (17 June 1924 – 17 September 2016), Swedish sprinter and hurdler
- Rune Bratseth (born 19 March 1961), Norwegian footballer
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& |
---|
Sweden[9] |
|
6603 |
26721 |
0 |
8 |
6603 |
26713 |
Denmark[10] |
|
6161 |
n.a. |
7 |
n.a. |
6154 |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
1128 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
1128 |
Greenland[12] |
|
39 |
61 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
|
2 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
18761 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
18761 |
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: [9][10][14][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables