Sixten

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish variant form of Sighsten

Related Names

See Sigstæinn

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Sixten
Genitive:	Sixtens

- Finnish
Nominative:	Sixten
Genitive:	Sixtenin
Partitive:	Sixteniä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Sixten
Genitive:	Sixtens

- Swedish
Nominative:	Sixten
Genitive:	Sixtens

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 August

Sweden

14 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1886

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1910-1929
• Norway: 2005-2008

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Nordland
• Sweden: Småland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Edy Sixten Jernberg (6 February 1929 – 14 July 2012), Swedish cross-country skier

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		6119	12671	3	10	6116	12661
Finland		n.a.	600	0	0	n.a.	600
Denmark		208	n.a.	0	n.a.	208	n.a.
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		87	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	87	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Sixten (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.