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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Inge f for the female version.
Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish and younger form of Ingi [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Ingi
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Inges
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Ingen
|
Partitive: |
Ingeä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Inges
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Inges
|
Name Days
Norway
|
17 December
|
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
21 June
|
Sweden
|
11 February
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Norway: Inge Johan Lønning (20 February 1938 – 24 March 2013), Norwegian Lutheran theologian and politician
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 22684 people were named Inge m (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [8]
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& |
---|
Denmark[10] |
|
22331 |
n.a. |
22317 |
n.a. |
14 |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
|
3098 |
17156 |
280 |
444 |
2818 |
16712 |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
539 |
n.a. |
387 |
n.a. |
152 |
Greenland[13] |
|
37 |
89 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
3 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
4883 |
n.a. |
190 |
n.a. |
4693 |
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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[11][10][15][12]:
Sources: [11] [10] [15] [12]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[15]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no