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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of Urbanus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See also Ubbe, Upe, Urpo
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Urban
|
Genitive: |
Urbans
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Urban
|
Genitive: |
Urbanin
|
Partitive: |
Urbania
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Urban
|
Genitive: |
Urbans
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Urban
|
Genitive: |
Urbans
|
Name Days
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
25 May
|
Sweden
|
25 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Urban Hjärne (20 December 1641 - 10 March 1724), Swedish doctor, author and scientist
- Urban Hansen (23 October 1908 – 24 July 1986), Danish politician, Lord Mayor of København from 1962 to 1976
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 11196 people were named Urban (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
5340 |
11211 |
0 |
2 |
5340 |
11209 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
175 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
175 |
Denmark[10] |
|
36 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
36 |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
22 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
22 |
n.a. |
Greenland[12] |
|
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 Urban.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/