Sean

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Male Male Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Anglicised form of Seán [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Seán

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sean
Genitive: Seans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sean
Genitive: Seanin
Partitive: Seania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sean
Genitive: Seans
Sweden - 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

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[6]
694 1143 4 7 690 1136
Denmark Denmark[7]
898
n.a.
1
n.a.
897
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
452 0 0
n.a.
452
Iceland Iceland[9]
17 24
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
3 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Sean (m) Sources: [6][7][11][8]


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no