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Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Latin amandus = 'lovable' (see also -us) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
For female forms see Amanda
See also Amund, Emandus
Name Days
Denmark
|
26 October
|
Faroe Islands
|
26 October
|
Norway
|
26 October
|
Patronyms
Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
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[12] |
|
236 |
822 |
0 |
0 |
236 |
822 |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
76 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
76 |
Greenland[14] |
|
3 |
22 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[15] |
|
8 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
8 |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
171 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
171 |
n.a. |
Iceland[17] |
|
0 |
1 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [12][15][16][13]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Amandus (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/