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Male Name
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Anglicised form of Seán [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Seán
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Sean
|
Genitive: |
Seans
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Sean
|
Genitive: |
Seanin
|
Partitive: |
Seania
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Sean
|
Genitive: |
Seans
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Sean
|
Genitive: |
Seans
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 15 people were named Sean (percentage of first or only given name: 67 %) [5]
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[6] |
|
694 |
1143 |
4 |
7 |
690 |
1136 |
Denmark[7] |
|
898 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
897 |
n.a. |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
452 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
452 |
Iceland[9] |
|
17 |
24 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
3 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
558 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
558 |
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: [6][7][11][8]
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no