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Fabian
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Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of Fabianus (see also -ian) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Fabianus
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Fabiansen |
|
| Fabianssen |
|
| Fabiansson |
|
| Fabiansøn |
|
Female
| Fabiansdatter |
|
| Fabiansdotter |
|
| Fabiansdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fabian |
| Genitive: | Fabians |
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fabian |
| Accusative: | Fabian |
| Dative: | Fabiani |
| Genitive: | Fabians |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fabian |
| Genitive: | Fabianin |
| Partitive: | Fabiania |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fabian |
| Genitive: | Fabians |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fabian |
| Genitive: | Fabians |
Name Days
|
|
20 January |
|
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20 January |
|
|
20 January |
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20 January |
Further Information
- Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name [8]
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Sweden:
- Västerbotten (19th century) see map [11]
- Småland (19th century) see map [11]
- Norrbotten (19th century) see map [11]
- Blekinge (19th century) see map [11]
- Sydsverige [10]
- Nordsverige [10]
Namesakes
- Karl Fabian Månsson (20 January 1872 – 4 January 1938), Swedish politician
- Richard Fabian Stang (born 19 August 1955), Norwegian lawyer and politician
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,302 people were named Fabian (percentage of first or only given name: 4 %) [10]
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[12] |
  |
4623 | 6415 | 0 | 7 | 4623 | 6408 |
| Finland[13] |
 |
n.a. |
2063 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
2063 |
| Denmark[14] |
 |
386 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
386 | n.a. |
 Iceland[15] |
  |
32 | 41 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[16] |
|
1243 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
1243 | n.a. |
 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [18]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Fabian (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables