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Falk

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Falko [1] [2]

2) Younger form of Fálki [3] [4]

Related Names

See Falko

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Falk
Genitive: Falks
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Falk
Genitive: Falkin
Partitive: Falkia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Falk
Genitive: Falks
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Falk
Genitive: Falks

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Falk (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [5]

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 Sweden[6]
15 71 0 15 15 56
Denmark Denmark[7]
41
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 40
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 37 0 0
n.a.
 37
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
303
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 303
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Falk (m) Sources: [6][7][10][8]


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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