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Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse variant form, Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Halfdanr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Halfdanr
Male
Halfdansen
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Halfdanssen
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Halfdansøn
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Female
Halfdansdatter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Halfdan
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Genitive: |
Halfdans
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Halfdan
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Genitive: |
Halfdanin
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Partitive: |
Halfdania
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Halfdan
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Genitive: |
Halfdans
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Halfdan
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Genitive: |
Halfdans
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Halfdan Kjerulf (15 September 1815 – 11 August 1868), Norwegian composer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 157 people were named Halfdan (percentage of first or only given name: 15 %) [8]
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& |
---|
Denmark[9] |
|
593 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
593 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
8 |
45 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
45 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
20 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
20 |
Greenland[12] |
|
3 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
269 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
269 |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
0 |
1 |
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. |
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/