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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
English form of the Welsh name Gwladus [1] [2] or Gwladys: [3] [4]
1) Female form of the Welsh name Gwledig = 'ruler' [5] [6]
2) Welsh form of Claudia [5] [3] [4]
Related Names
See also Glady
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Gladys
|
Genitive: |
Gladys'
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Gladys
|
Genitive: |
Gladyksen
|
Partitive: |
Gladysta
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Gladys
|
Genitive: |
Gladys'
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Gladys
|
Genitive: |
Gladys' / Gladys
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Norway: Gladys Raknerud (née White Nilssen, 26 June 1912 - 28 January 1997), Norwegian visual artist
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 298 people were named Gladys (percentage of first or only given name: 62 %) [9]
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[10] |
|
315 |
545 |
315 |
543 |
0 |
2 |
Denmark[11] |
|
115 |
n.a. |
115 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
139 |
n.a. |
139 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[13] |
|
4 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
165 |
n.a. |
165 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[15] |
|
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 Gladys.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Heini Gruffudd: Welsh First Names (2003)
- ↑ Heini Gruffudd: Welsh Names for Children (2006)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/