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Usage
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Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
English name
Early 20th century coinage, apparently invented by Oscar Wilde, who used it for the main character in The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1891)
He probably took it from Late Latin Dorianus, from Greek Dorieus, a member of the Greek-speaking people who settled in the Peloponnese in pre-classical times. Dorian would thus be a male form of Doris. [1]
Related Names
See also Doria
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Dorian
|
Genitive: |
Dorians
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Dorian
|
Genitive: |
Dorianin
|
Partitive: |
Doriania
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Dorian
|
Genitive: |
Dorians
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Dorian
|
Genitive: |
Dorians
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 38 people were named Dorian (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %) [3]
- Dorian Gray, invented by Oscar Wilde, is a dissolute rake who retains unblemished youthful good looks; in the attic of his home is a portrait which does his ageing for him, gradually acquiring all the outward marks of his depravity. [1]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[4] |
|
200 |
287 |
6 |
9 |
194 |
278 |
Denmark[5] |
|
42 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
40 |
n.a. |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
75 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
75 |
Iceland[7] |
|
8 |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[8] |
|
85 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
85 |
n.a. |
Greenland[9] |
|
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [4][5][8][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/