Gilles

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

French form of Gilius [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Gilius

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gilles
Genitive: Gilles'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gilles
Genitive: Gilleksen / Gilleen
Partitive: Gillesta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gilles
Genitive: Gilles'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gilles
Genitive: Gilles' / Gilles

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Gilles (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [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]
48 105 2 2 46 103
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
122 0 0
n.a.
122
Denmark Denmark[8]
16
n.a.
0
n.a.
16
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
17
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gilles.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/