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Ben

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form (English) of names beginning with Ben-, especially Benjamin (see also Ibn) and Benedikt (see Benedictus) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

2) Frisian and Low German short form of names beginning with Bern- (see BJÖRN) [1] [5] [7] [8]

Related Names

Ben ♂
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Bene ♂
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 Old Norse Swedish
Beni ♂
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 Danish Finish Swedish
Benn ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Benne ♂
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 Danish Finish Sami Swedish
Benney ♂
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 Swedish
Benni ♂
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 Danish Icelandic Swedish
Bennie ♂
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 Danish Swedish
Benno ♂
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Benny ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Benu ♂
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 Finish
Pena ♂
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 Finish
Peni ♂
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 Finish
Penna ♂
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 Finish
Penni ♂
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 Finish
Pennu ♂
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 Finish
Penu ♂
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 Finish

See also Pentti
For female forms see Benny f

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bensen Denmark Norway
Benson Iceland Norway Sweden
Benssen Denmark Norway
Bensson Iceland Sweden

Female

Bendatter Denmark
Bendóttir Iceland
Bensdatter Denmark Norway
Bensdotter Sweden
Bensdóttir Iceland

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ben
Genitive: Bens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ben
Genitive: Benin
Partitive: Beniä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ben
Accusative: Ben
Dative: Ben
Genitive: Ben / Bens
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ben
Genitive: Bens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ben
Genitive: Bens

Name Days

Norway Norway

30 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ben Roy Mottelson (born 9 July 1926), Danish American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physics, 1975)

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 105 people were named Ben (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [11]

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]
772 2755 8 95 764 2660
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 1395 0 0
n.a.
 1395
Denmark Denmark[14]
193
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 193
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 161
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
6 90
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
563
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 563
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 Ben (m) Sources: [12][14][17][13]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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