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Samson

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Σαμψων (Sampson), a Greek form of the Hebrew name שִׁמְשׁוֹן (Shimshon)

Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן (shimshon) = 'sun' [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Samson ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish

See also Sam, Sámisût, Sampsa, Shams, Simson, Sämpsä

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Samsonarson Iceland
Samsoninpoika Finland
Samsonsen Denmark Norway
Samsonsson Faroe Islands Sweden

Female

Samsonardóttir Iceland
Samsonintytär Finland
Samsonsdatter Denmark Norway
Samsonsdotter Sweden
Samsonsdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Samson
Genitive: Samsons
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Samson
Accusative: Samson
Dative: Samsoni
Genitive: Samsons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Samson
Genitive: Samsonin
Partitive: Samsonia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Samson
Accusative: Samson
Dative: Samsoni
Genitive: Samsonar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Samson
Genitive: Samsons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Samson
Genitive: Samsons

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Samson (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %) [6]

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[7]
256 453 0 60 256 393
Denmark Denmark[8]
119
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 119
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 92 0 0
n.a.
 92
Greenland Greenland[10]
7 28
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
6 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
287
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 287
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 Samson (m) Sources: [7][8][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Samson (m) Sources: [13]


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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