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Male Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
A Celtic name of uncertain meaning [1] [2] [3]
Theories include:
1) Breton alan = 'little rock' [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
2) Irish (?!) alan = 'handsome', 'peaceful' (less certain)
3) Celtic alan [6] / alun [9] = 'harmony' (less certain) [6] [9]
4) From the name of the Iranian nomadic pastoral people Alans (Alani) [10] [8]
Related Names
See also Ali
For female forms see Alana, Alanda
Male
Alansson
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Female
Alansdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Alan
|
Genitive: |
Alans
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Alan
|
Genitive: |
Alanin
|
Partitive: |
Alania
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Alan
|
Accusative: |
Alan
|
Dative: |
Alani
|
Genitive: |
Alans
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Alan
|
Genitive: |
Alans
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Alan
|
Genitive: |
Alans
|
Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 66 people were named Alan (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [15]
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[16] |
|
1571 |
2253 |
17 |
39 |
1554 |
2214 |
Denmark[17] |
|
1079 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
1079 |
n.a. |
Finland[18] |
|
n.a. |
934 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
934 |
Iceland[19] |
|
57 |
77 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[20] |
|
4 |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[21] |
|
811 |
n.a. |
7 |
n.a. |
804 |
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: [16][17][21][18]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Judy Sierra: Celtic Baby Names (1997)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no