Christian

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Usage

Short form (German) of Christianus (see also -ian) ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

See also:
Variant forms forms: Chrestian, Chrisander, Christen, Christiern, Karistiât (Greenlandic), Karsten (Low German), Krischan (Low German), Krisztián (Hungarian), Ristian (Finnish)
Female forms: Christina, Christiana
Short forms: Chris, Kit, Kren, Kristo, Ripa

For combinations see KRIST (name element)

- Danish
Nominative:	Christian
Genitive:	Christians

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Christian
Genitive:	Christians

- Swedish
Nominative:	Christian
Genitive:	Christians

Denmark:
- 12th century ^[2]
- A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
Norway:
- 14th century ^[6]
Iceland:
- Officially approved as a given name on 11 March 2004 ^[7]
- Officially approved as a given name on 8 July 2009 ^[7]

Christian Lundeberg (14 July 1842 - 10 November 1911), Prime Minister of Sweden and Norway (1905)
Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947), King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and the only king of Iceland (where the name was officially spelled Kristján), between 1918 and 1944
Christian Lous Lange (17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938), Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist, Nobel laureate (Peace, 1921)
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen (15 March 1857 – 29 June 1925), Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of Norway (1905-1907)
Christian Valdemar Henri John (*15th October 2005), Prince of Denmark

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Country	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[10]	19807	39232	7	20	19800	39212
Denmark^[11]	37671	n.a.	2	n.a.	37669	n.a.
Finland^[12]	n.a.	13522	n.a.	7	n.a.	13515
Greenland^[13]	80	298	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland^[14]	84	131	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway^[15]	14154	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	14154	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.

Name top list ranking for Christian (m) Sources: ^[16]

Norwegian historic statistics for Christian (m)

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

↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 ^9.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
↑ ^15.0 ^15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
↑ details see Name Statistic tables