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Egil

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands 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

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Egilsson Faroe Islands

Female

Egilsdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Egil
Genitive: Egils
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Egil
Accusative: Egil
Dative: Egili
Genitive: Egils
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Egil
Genitive: Egilin
Partitive: Egiliä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Egil
Genitive: Egils
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Egil
Genitive: Egils

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

5 November

Norway Norway

5 November

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

3 July

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

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[12]
476 1097 0 0 476 1097
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 350 0 0
n.a.
 350
Denmark Denmark[14]
158
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 158
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
7280
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 7280
n.a.
Greenland 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

Name statistics for Egil (m) Sources: [12][14][16][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Egil (m) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Egil (m)


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  6. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  7. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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