Saxo

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Saxi [1]

Related Names

See Saxi

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1864 (in modern times) [2]

Namesakes

Saxo Grammaticus or Saxo cognomine Longus (ca. 1150-1220), Danish historian, thought to have been a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, foremost advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the first full history of Denmark called Gesta Danorum.

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[3]
171
n.a.
0
n.a.
171
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[4]
2 4 0 0 2 4
Norway Norway[5]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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 Saxo.


References

  1. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/