Valentin

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Valentinus (see also -in) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Valentinus

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Valentin
Genitive: Valentins
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Valentin
Genitive: Valentinin
Partitive: Valentinia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Valentin
Genitive: Valentins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Valentin
Genitive: Valentins

Name Days

Finland Finland

14 February

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

14 February

Sweden Sweden

14 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 11,138 people were named Valentin (percentage of first or only given name: 1 %) [5]

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 Sweden[6]
1022 8728 3 40 1019 8688
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
3834
n.a.
7
n.a.
3827
Denmark Denmark[8]
541
n.a.
0
n.a.
541
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
15 21
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
265
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
265
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Valentin (m) Sources: [6][8][10][7]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/