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Usage
Finnish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of Augustus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
See Augustus
Male
Augustinpoika
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Augustsen
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Augustson
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Augustssen
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Augustsson
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Augustssøn
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Augustsøn
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Female
Augustdatter
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Augustdotter
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Augustintytär
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Augustsdatter
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Augustsdotter
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Augustsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
August
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Genitive: |
Augusts
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
August
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Accusative: |
August
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Dative: |
Augusti
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Genitive: |
Augusts
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
August
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Genitive: |
Augustin
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Partitive: |
Augustia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
August
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Accusative: |
August
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Dative: |
Augusti
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Genitive: |
Augusts
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
August
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Genitive: |
Augusts
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
August
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Genitive: |
Augusts
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Name Days
Finland
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7 January
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Norway
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28 August
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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7 January
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Sweden
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7 January
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- August Theodor Blanche, 17th September, 1811 – 30th November, 1868, Swedish journalist, novelist, and a Socialist statesman
- Johan August Söderman, 17th July, 1832 – 10th February, 1876, Swedish composer
- Johan August Strindberg, 22nd January, 1849 – 14th May, 1912, Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist
- Schack August Steenberg Krogh, 15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949, Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen and Nobel laureate
(Physiology or Medicine, 1920)
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[11] |
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5620 |
11326 |
2 |
9 |
5618 |
11317 |
Finland[12] |
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n.a. |
18667 |
n.a. |
17 |
n.a. |
18650 |
Denmark[13] |
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6119 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
6117 |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
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3 |
20 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
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1 |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
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n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2030 |
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: [11][13][16][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [17]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of August (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables