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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Ellen m for the male version.
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Variant form of Eleonora and its variants [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Variant form (Danish, Norwegian, English) of Helene and its variants [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
3) Pet form of Gabriella [4]
Related Names
See also Ella, Erlen, Îlíne, Nelli
For male forms see Ellenius
Male
Ellenarson
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Female
Ellenardóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see ELL (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ellen
|
Genitive: |
Ellens
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ellen
|
Genitive: |
Ellenin
|
Partitive: |
Elleniä
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Ellen
|
Accusative: |
Ellen
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Dative: |
Ellen
|
Genitive: |
Ellenar
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ellen
|
Genitive: |
Ellens
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ellen
|
Genitive: |
Ellens
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Name Days
Finland
|
10 February
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Norway
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21 May
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Finland (Swedish Language)
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10 February
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Sweden
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18 August
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
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[18] |
|
15933 |
28499 |
15930 |
28492 |
3 |
7 |
Denmark[16] |
|
12073 |
n.a. |
12073 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[19] |
|
n.a. |
21977 |
n.a. |
21975 |
n.a. |
2 |
Iceland[20] |
|
210 |
270 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[21] |
|
74 |
192 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[22] |
|
12449 |
n.a. |
12449 |
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. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[18][16][22][19]:
Sources: [18] [16] [22] [19]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[22]:
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Ellen (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1963)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no