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Van

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Female/Male Both Genders Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) English short form of names containing van, e. g. Ivan

2) Common prefix of Dutch surnames mistaken for a first name (e. g. Vincent van Gogh) meaning 'of', 'from'

3) Latin spelling of Vietnamese 文 (văn) = 'knowledge', 'literature'

4) Latin spelling of Vietnamese 雲 (vân) = 'cloud'

Related Names

Van ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Van
Genitive: Vanin
Partitive: Vania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Van
Genitive: Vans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Van
Genitive: Vans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden:
    • 1899 (male, born in Vietnam?) [1]
    • 1919 (female, born in Vietnam?) [1]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden:
    • In January 1973, 20 male people were named Van (percentage of first or only given name: 35 %) and less than 10 female people [2]

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[3]
1293 2112 72 301 1221 1811
Denmark Denmark[4]
772
n.a.
 54
n.a.
 718
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 1272
n.a.
 187
n.a.
 1085
Iceland Iceland[6]
38 120
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 70
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
384
n.a.
 107
n.a.
 277
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 Van.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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