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Male Name
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Swedish
Faroese
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish younger form of Axeln [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Axelen
Male
Akselinpoika
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Akselsen
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Akselson
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Akselssen
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Akselsson
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Akselssøn
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Akselsøn
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Female
Akseldatter
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Akselintytär
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Akselsdatter
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Akselsdotter
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Akselsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Aksel
|
Genitive: |
Aksels
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Aksel
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Accusative: |
Aksel
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Dative: |
Akseli
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Genitive: |
Aksels
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Aksel
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Genitive: |
Akselin
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Partitive: |
Akselia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Aksel
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Accusative: |
Aksel
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Dative: |
Aksel
|
Genitive: |
Aksels
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Aksel
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Genitive: |
Aksels
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Aksel
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Genitive: |
Aksels
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Name Days
Faroe Islands
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30 October
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Norway
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30 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 168 people were named Aksel (percentage of first or only given name: 52 %) [10]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[11] |
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5217 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
5216 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
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n.a. |
3704 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
3704 |
Sweden[13] |
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311 |
618 |
3 |
3 |
308 |
615 |
Greenland[14] |
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22 |
94 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
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2 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
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5343 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
5343 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [13][11][9][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables