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Male Name
Usage
Old Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Egill [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Related Names
See *AʒilaR
Male
Egilsson
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Female
Egilsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Egil
|
Genitive: |
Egils
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Egil
|
Accusative: |
Egil
|
Dative: |
Egili
|
Genitive: |
Egils
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Egil
|
Genitive: |
Egilin
|
Partitive: |
Egiliä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Egil
|
Genitive: |
Egils
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Egil
|
Genitive: |
Egils
|
Name Days
Faroe Islands
|
5 November
|
Norway
|
5 November
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
3 July
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Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Ottar Egil Toreng (5 December 1922 – 8 January 2015), Norwegian newspaper editor and politician
- Egil Danielsen (9 November 1933 – 29 July 2019), Norwegian javelin thrower
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 709 people were named Egil (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %) [11]
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[12] |
|
476 |
1097 |
0 |
0 |
476 |
1097 |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
350 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
350 |
Denmark[14] |
|
158 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
158 |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
|
3 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
7280 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
7280 |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
|
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: [12][14][16][13]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [18]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables