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Dan 1

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Male Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Slavic name see Dan 2, for the Hebrew name see Dan 3

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of DanR [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

Daan ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Dahn ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Dan ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Dann ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Norwegian Swedish
Danne ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

For female forms see Dana, Dania, Danlína

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Dansson Old Swedish Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Dansdotter Old Swedish
Dansdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dan
Genitive: Dans
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Dan
Accusative: Dan
Dative: Dani
Genitive: Dans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dan
Genitive: Danin
Partitive: Dania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Dan
Accusative: Dan
Dative: Dan
Genitive: Dans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dan
Genitive: Dans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dan
Genitive: Dans

Name Days

Norway Norway

11 December

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

11 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Dan Turèll ("Onkel Danny", 19 March 1946 – 15 October 1993), Danish writer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 14,442 people were named Dan 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 92 %) [14]

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&
Sweden Sweden[16]
11577 22706 72 111 11505 22595
Denmark Denmark[17]
6437
n.a.
 47
n.a.
 6390
n.a.
Finland Finland[18]
n.a.
 2133
n.a.
 97
n.a.
 2036
Iceland Iceland[19]
22 218
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[20]
20 49
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[21]
2273
n.a.
 28
n.a.
 2245
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 Dan (m) Sources: [16][17][21][18]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Dan (m) Sources: [22]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Dan (m)


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. ↑ Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  15. ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  19. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  20. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  22. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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