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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Glenn f for the female version.
Usage
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant (Nordic) spelling of Glen [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Glen
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Glenn
|
Genitive: |
Glenns
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Glenn
|
Genitive: |
Glennin
|
Partitive: |
Glenniä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Glenn
|
Genitive: |
Glenns
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Glenn
|
Genitive: |
Glenns
|
Name Days
Norway
|
26 March
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
7 November
|
Sweden
|
22 April
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden:
- In January 1973, 2784 people were named Glenn m (percentage of first or only given name: 87 %) [10]
- Glenn is an IKEA product name (bar stool) [12]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[13] |
|
3040 |
5465 |
0 |
10 |
3040 |
5455 |
Denmark[14] |
|
1201 |
n.a. |
3 |
n.a. |
1198 |
n.a. |
Finland[15] |
|
n.a. |
424 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
422 |
Iceland[16] |
|
3 |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
|
4 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
3818 |
n.a. |
4 |
n.a. |
3814 |
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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[13][14][18][15]:
Sources: [13] [14] [18] [15]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[18]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no