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Grim

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of GrímR (see *Grīmaz) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Old Danish and Old Swedish name deriving from Old Norse grimmr = 'grim, cruel, atrocious' (see also Grumme) [2]

Related Names

Grim ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Grimm ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Grim
Genitive: Grims
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Grim
Genitive: Grims

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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[7]
281 451 0 5 281 446
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 10 0 0
n.a.
 10
Denmark Denmark[10]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
128
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 128
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 Grim (m) Sources: [7][10][11][9]


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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