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English name derived from the name of Irelands longest river which probably means 'old man river', from Irish sean = 'old'. The river was believed to personify an ancient water god [1] [2]
Shannon | ♀/♂ |
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- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Shannon |
Genitive: | Shannons |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Shannon |
Genitive: | Shannonin |
Partitive: | Shannonia |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Shannon |
Genitive: | Shannons |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Shannon |
Genitive: | Shannons |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[3] |
|
90 | 130 | 73 | 103 | 17 | 27 |
Denmark[4] |
|
95 | n.a. |
84 | n.a. |
11 | n.a. |
Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
89 | n.a. |
69 | n.a. |
20 |
Iceland[6] |
|
2 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
|
48 | n.a. |
41 | n.a. |
7 | n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
|
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 Shannon.