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Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Latin spelling of the Hebrew name עַבְדּוֹן (Abdon) meaning 'servile, service, subservient' [1]
Related Names
Grammar
- Danish |
Genitive: |
Abdons
|
- Finnish |
Genitive: |
Abdonin
|
Partitive: |
Abdonia
|
- Swedish |
Genitive: |
Abdons
|
Name Days
Denmark
|
30 July
|
Faroe Islands
|
30 July
|
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 96 people were named Abdon (percentage of first or only given name: 21 %) [2]
Bible
- Abdon was the tenth Judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Old Testament
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[3] |
|
4 |
34 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
34 |
Finland[4] |
|
n.a. |
17 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
17 |
Denmark[5] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[6] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
|
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 Abdon.
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 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/