Halfdan

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Male Name

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

Related Names

See Halfdanr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Halfdansen
Halfdanssen
Halfdansøn

Female

Halfdansdatter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Halfdan
Genitive:	Halfdans

- Finnish
Nominative:	Halfdan
Genitive:	Halfdanin
Partitive:	Halfdania

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Halfdan
Genitive:	Halfdans

- Swedish
Nominative:	Halfdan
Genitive:	Halfdans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1800 (in modern times)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1865-1929
• Norway: 1900-1910
• Denmark: 1900-1919

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • København
  • Sjælland
• Sweden:
  • Västsverige
  • Nordsverige

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 %)

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&
Denmark		593	n.a.	0	n.a.	593	n.a.
Sweden		8	45	0	0	8	45
Finland		n.a.	20	0	0	n.a.	20
Greenland		3	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		269	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	269	n.a.
Iceland		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.

 

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