Amandus

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin amandus = 'lovable' (see also -us) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Amaantuusi
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Greenlandic
Amandius
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Norwegian
Amandus
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Amãntûse
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Greenlandic
Ámantûse
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Greenlandic
Mandius
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Norwegian
Mandus
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Finish Norwegian Swedish

For female forms see Amanda

See also Amund, Emandus

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

26 October

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

26 October

Norway Norway

26 October

Patronyms

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: [a‘mandɵs] (key) [8]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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[12]
236 822 0 0 236 822
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
76 0 0
n.a.
76
Greenland Greenland[14]
3 22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[15]
8
n.a.
0
n.a.
8
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
171
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
171
n.a.
Iceland 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

Name statistics for Amandus (m) Sources: [12][15][16][13]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Amandus (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Amandus (m)


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  6. Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  7. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  11. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/