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Derived from the Arabic title سلطان (sultan) = 'ruler', 'prince', 'monarch', 'king', 'queen', earlier 'power', 'dominion' [1] [2] [3]
Sultan | ♀/♂ |
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Arabic |
Sultana | ♀ |
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Arabic |
Zoltan | ♂ |
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Zoltán | ♂ |
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Hungarian |
Zsolt | ♂ | Hungarian |
- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Sultan |
Genitive: | Sultans |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Sultan |
Genitive: | Sultanin |
Partitive: | Sultania |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Sultan |
Genitive: | Sultans |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Sultan |
Genitive: | Sultans |
Sultan is a name used among immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
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[4] |
|
486 | 769 | 186 | 320 | 300 | 449 |
Denmark[5] |
|
324 | n.a. |
244 | n.a. |
80 | n.a. |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
99 | n.a. |
44 | n.a. |
55 |
Iceland[7] |
|
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[8] |
|
178 | n.a. |
49 | n.a. |
129 | n.a. |
Greenland[9] |
|
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 Sultan.