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Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Franz [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Franz
Male
Fransinpoika
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Fransen
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Franson
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Franssen
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Fransson
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Franssøn
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Fransøn
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Female
Fransdatter
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Fransintytär
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Fransdotter
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Fransdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Frans
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Genitive: |
Frans'
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Frans
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Accusative: |
Frans
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Dative: |
Fransi
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Genitive: |
Frans
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Frans
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Genitive: |
Fransin
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Partitive: |
Fransia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Frans
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Accusative: |
Frans
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Dative: |
Frans
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Genitive: |
Frans
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Frans
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Genitive: |
Frans'
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Frans
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Genitive: |
Frans' / Frans
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Name Days
Finland
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4 October
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Norway
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4 October
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Finland (Swedish Language)
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4 October
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Sweden
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4 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Frans Michael Franzén (9th February 1772 – 14th August 1847), Finland-Swedish poet
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964, Finnish writer and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1939)
- Frans Osifoh Jeppsson Wall (born 19 December 1998), Swedish singer (Osifoh = Ika name meaning 'good things are always present')
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 12232 people were named Frans (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %) [11]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[13] |
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3883 |
9164 |
0 |
10 |
3883 |
9154 |
Finland[14] |
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n.a. |
15327 |
n.a. |
9 |
n.a. |
15318 |
Denmark[15] |
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436 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
436 |
n.a. |
Iceland[16] |
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13 |
39 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
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10 |
17 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
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247 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
247 |
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
Sources: [13][15][18][14]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Frans (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables