Anker

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Male Male Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Danish younger form of Ankarl [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Ankarl

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ankersen Denmark Norway
Ankerson Sweden
Ankersson Sweden
Ankersøn Norway

Female

Ankerdatter Norway
Ankersdatter Norway
Ankersdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Anker
Genitive: Ankers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Anker
Genitive: Ankers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Anker
Genitive: Ankers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[5]
2028
n.a.
0
n.a.
2028
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
28 244 0 14 28 230
Greenland Greenland[7]
3 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
3 0 0
n.a.
3
Norway Norway[9]
124
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
124
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Anker (m)


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/