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Torkel
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Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Þórkæll [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Þórkætill
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Torkel |
| Genitive: | Torkels |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Torkel |
| Genitive: | Torkelin |
| Partitive: | Torkelia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Torkel |
| Genitive: | Torkels |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Torkel |
| Genitive: | Torkels |
Name Days
|
|
11 March |
|
|
26 February |
Further Information
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Torkel Opsahl (17 March 1931 — 16 September 1993), Norwegian lawyer and human rights scholar
Trivia
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[7] |
  |
409 | 885 | 0 | 0 | 409 | 885 |
| Finland[8] |
 |
n.a. |
53 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
53 |
| Denmark[9] |
|
18 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
18 | n.a. |
| Norway[10] |
 |
610 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
610 | n.a. |
 Greenland[11] |
  |
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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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/