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Alan

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland 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

Alain ♂
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Alan ♂
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Alanus ♂
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Aleinn ♂
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Alen ♂
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Allan ♂
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Állan ♂
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Allani ♂
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Allen ♂
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See also Ali

For female forms see Alana, Alanda

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Alansson Iceland

Female

Alansdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Alan
Genitive: Alans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Alan
Genitive: Alanin
Partitive: Alania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Alan
Accusative: Alan
Dative: Alani
Genitive: Alans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Alan
Genitive: Alans
Sweden - 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

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[16]
1571 2253 17 39 1554 2214
Denmark Denmark[17]
1079
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 1079
n.a.
Finland Finland[18]
n.a.
 934 0 0
n.a.
 934
Iceland Iceland[19]
57 77
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[20]
4 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Alan (m) Sources: [16][17][21][18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Alan (m)


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Judy Sierra: Celtic Baby Names (1997)
  3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  5. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  10. ↑ Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  11. ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  12. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  19. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  20. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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