Donald

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

English form of Dòmhnall [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Dòmhnall

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Donaldsson Iceland

Female

Donaldsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Donald
Genitive: Donalds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Donald
Genitive: Donaldin
Partitive: Donaldia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Donald
Accusative: Donald
Dative: Donald
Genitive: Donalds
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Donald
Genitive: Donalds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Donald
Genitive: Donalds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden:
    • In January 1973, 1828 people were named Donald (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [11]
    • Donald Duck in Swedish: Kalle Anka

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]
542 1725 0 7 542 1718
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
333 0 0
n.a.
333
Denmark Denmark[14]
134
n.a.
0
n.a.
134
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
7 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
66
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
66
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Donald.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. E. G. Withycombe: The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names (1977)
  3. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  10. 10.0 10.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no