Ernst

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Ernest

Related Names

See Ernust

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ernstinpoika
Ernstsen
Ernstson
Ernstssen
Ernstsson
Ernstsøn
Ernstzen
Erntsen

Female

Ernstdatter
Ernstdotter
Ernstintytär
Ernstsdatter
Ernstsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ernst
Genitive:	Ernsts

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ernst
Accusative:	Ernst
Dative:	Ernsti
Genitive:	Ernsts

- Finnish
Nominative:	Ernst
Genitive:	Ernstin
Partitive:	Ernstiä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ernst
Accusative:	Ernst
Dative:	Ernst
Genitive:	Ernsts

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ernst
Genitive:	Ernsts

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ernst
Genitive:	Ernsts

Name Days

Faroe Islands

2 March

Norway

2 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

13 March

Sweden

2 March

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 13th century
• Norway: 17th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1900-1919
• Sweden: 1900-1919
• Norway: 1920-1940

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • København
• Sweden:
  • Östergötland (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
  • Öland (19th century) see map
  • Södermanland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Sweden:
  • Ernst Josephson (16 April 1851 - 22 November 1906), Swedish painter
  • Ernst Trygger (27 October 1857 - 23 September 1943), Prime Minister of Sweden (1923-1924)
  • Ernst Rolf (birth name Ernst Ragnar Johansson, 20th January, 1891 – 25th December, 1932), Swedish revue actor and singer
• Norway:
  • Ernst Håkon Jahr (born 4 March 1948), Norwegian linguist, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of Agder

The German pronunciation of Ernst can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de.

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&
Sweden		2351	10614	0	2	2351	10612
Denmark		1822	n.a.	0	n.a.	1822	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	2921	0	0	n.a.	2921
Greenland		17	43	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		8	24	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1322	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	1322	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

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ernst (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.