Egill

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse and younger form of *AʒilaR

Related Names

See *AʒilaR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Egilsson

Female

Egilsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Egill
Genitive:	Egills

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Egill
Accusative:	Egil
Dative:	Agli
Genitive:	Egils

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Egill
Genitive:	Egills

- Swedish
Nominative:	Egill
Genitive:	Egills

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: ca 900
• Denmark: 11th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1910-1940

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Hordaland

Namesakes

• Egill Skallagrímsson (ca 910 – ca 990), a Viking Age warrior and skald

Trivia

• Egill is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		704	905	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		24	33	0	0	24	33
Denmark		35	n.a.	0	n.a.	35	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	2	0	0	n.a.	2
Norway		61	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	61	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

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