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Troy
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Origin and Meaning
English name
1) Transferred use of a surname, derived from the place name Troyes in northeast France. Its Roman name used to be Civitas Tricassium, indicating that it was the capital of the Celtic people known as the Tricasses. [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Associated with the ancient city of Troy in Asia Minor. The city derives its name from that of its founder Tros, the legendary king of Phrygia. This name comes from Indoeuropean treu or trou = 'to be strong' [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
| Troy | ♂ |   |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Troy |
| Genitive: | Troys |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Troy |
| Genitive: | Troyn |
| Partitive: | Troyta |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Troy |
| Genitive: | Troys |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Troy |
| Genitive: | Troys |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
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[5] |
 |
396 | 505 | 2 | 2 | 394 | 503 |
| Finland[6] |
 |
n.a. |
102 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
102 |
| Denmark[7] |
 |
26 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
25 | n.a. |
 Iceland[8] |
  |
2 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
|
319 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
319 | n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
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
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/