Denis m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Denis f for the female version.

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

French form of Dionysius (see Dionysios) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Denis
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Denys
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

For variant forms see also Dennis (English)

For female forms see Denise

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Denis
Genitive: Denis'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Denis
Genitive: Deniksen
Partitive: Denistä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Denis
Genitive: Denis'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Denis
Genitive: Denis'/Denis

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 547 people were named Denis m (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [5]

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[7]
1318 1698 12 37 1306 1661
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
1558
n.a.
6
n.a.
1552
Denmark Denmark[9]
750
n.a.
4
n.a.
746
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
25 29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
4 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
459
n.a.
4
n.a.
455
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.

 

Statistics as male name

Recent statistics trend[7][9][12][8]:Name statistics for Denis (m)

Sources: [7] [9] [12] [8]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no