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Ib

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish variant form of Jep (see Japer) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Ib ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Ibb ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ibbe ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Ip ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish

For female forms see Ibbe f

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ibsen Denmark Norway
Ibssen Denmark Norway
Ibssøn Norway
Ibsøn Norway

Female

Ibsdatter Denmark Norway
Ibsdotter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ib
Genitive: Ibs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ib
Genitive: Ibin
Partitive: Ibiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ib
Genitive: Ibs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ib
Genitive: Ibs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ib Eisner (19 May 1925 – 7 April 2003), Danish artist
  • Ib Hansen (22 December 1928 - 24 February 2013), Danish opera singer and actor
  • Ib Nørholm (born 24 January 1931), Danish composer and organist
  • Ib Ohlsson (born 1935 ), Danish graphic artist and illustrator
  • Ib Henning Madsen (born 12 April 1942), Danish mathematician
  • Ib Michael (né Ib Michael Rasmussen, born 17 January 1945), Danish novelist and poet
  • Ib Mohr Olsen (born 23 November 1965), Faroese football player

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 150 people were named Ib (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [4]

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 Denmark[5]
5993
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 5993
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
153 325 2 5 151 320
Greenland Greenland[7]
34 65
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 22 0 0
n.a.
 22
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
95
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 95
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ib.


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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