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Ian

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Scottish form of John [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Irish form of John [3]

Related Names

Ian ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Ían ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

See also Evian, Iain

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Iansson Faroe Islands

Female

Iansdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ian
Genitive: Ians
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ian
Accusative: Ian
Dative: Iani
Genitive: Ians
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ian
Genitive: Ianin
Partitive: Iania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ian
Genitive: Ians
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ian
Genitive: Ians

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

24 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 129 people were named Ian (percentage of first or only given name: 76 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[8]
1623 2524 13 24 1610 2500
Greenland Greenland[9]
28 2528
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
867
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 866
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 850
n.a.
 6
n.a.
 844
Iceland Iceland[12]
20 31
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
604
n.a.
 6
n.a.
 598
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 Ian (m) Sources: [8][10][13][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Ian (m) Sources: [14]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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