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Eskil
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Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Ǣskæll [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
See Ǣskæll
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Eskilsen |
|
| Eskilsson | 
|
Female
| Eskilsdatter |
|
| Eskilsdotter |
|
| Eskilsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Eskil |
| Genitive: | Eskils |
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Eskil |
| Accusative: | Eskil |
| Dative: | Eskili |
| Genitive: | Eskils |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Eskil |
| Genitive: | Eskilin |
| Partitive: | Eskiliä |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Eskil |
| Accusative: | Eskil |
| Dative: | Eskil |
| Genitive: | Eskils |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Eskil |
| Genitive: | Eskils |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Eskil |
| Genitive: | Eskils |
Name Days
|
|
15 September |
|
|
15 September |
|
|
12 June |
|
|
12 June |
Further Information
- Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name [9]
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Saint Eskil, patron saint of Södermanland, dead ca. 1080
Place Names
- Sweden: Eskilstuna
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[11] |
  |
1884 | 5231 | 0 | 5 | 1884 | 5226 |
| Finland[12] |
  |
n.a. |
897 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
897 |
| Denmark[13] |
|
387 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
387 | n.a. |
| Iceland[14] |
  |
3 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[15] |
|
2359 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2359 | n.a. |
 Greenland[16] |
  |
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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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Eskil (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/