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Agathon

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Αγαθων (Agathon)

Greek αγαθος (agathos) = 'good, honourable' [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Agathon ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Agaton ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Agerton ♂
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 Norwegian
Akaati ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Akaaton ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also
Female forms: Agathe
Variant and Pet forms: Aake, Agat, Age, Agge, Akki, Atte, Kaaton and Toni

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

7 December

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: [‘ɑ:gatɔn] (key) [4]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 18 people were named Agathon (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %) [5]

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&
Sweden Sweden[6]
35 61 0 0 35 61
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 12 0 0
n.a.
 12
Denmark Denmark[8]
2
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 7
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Agathon.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  4. ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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