Absalon

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Absalom [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Absalom

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Absaloninpoika Finland
Absalonsen Denmark Norway
Absalonson Norway
Absalonssen Norway
Absalonsson Faroe Islands Iceland Norway
Absalonssøn Norway
Absalonsøn Norway

Female

Absalondatter Norway
Absalonintytär Finland
Absalonsdatter Denmark Norway
Absalonsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Absalon
Dative: Absalonj
Genitive: Absalonis

[6]

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Absalon
Genitive: Absalons
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Absalon
Accusative: Absalon
Dative: Absaloni
Genitive: Absalons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Absalon
Genitive: Absalonin
Partitive: Absalonia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Absalon
Accusative: Absalon
Dative: Absaloni
Genitive: Absalons
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Absalon
Genitive: Absalons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Absalon
Genitive: Absalons

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

30 October

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

30 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Absalon av Lund, Danish Arch bishop (1128-1201)

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[12]
60
n.a.
0
n.a.
60
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
9 54
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[14]
0 6 0 0 0 6
Iceland Iceland[15]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[16]
n.a.
2 0 0
n.a.
2
Norway Norway[17]
5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
5
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 Absalon.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  7. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  10. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  17. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no