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Knut
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Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Knútr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
In Sweden, Knut has sometimes been used to name the last child of the family (Swedish knut = 'knot' meaning 'stop') [3]
Related Names
See Knútr
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Knutsen |
|
| Knutson |
|
| Knutsson |
|
Female
| Knutsdatter |
|
| Knutsdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Knut |
| Genitive: | Knuts |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Knut |
| Genitive: | Knutin |
| Partitive: | Knutia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Knut |
| Genitive: | Knuts |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Knut |
| Genitive: | Knuts |
Name Days
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7 January |
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13 January |
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13 January |
Further Information
Tjugondag jul (Swedish, 'Twentieth Day Yule'), or Tjugondag Knut (Swedish) / Tjuendedags-Knut (Norwegian) is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Norway on 13 January. Christmas trees are taken down and the candies and cookies that decorated the tree are eaten.
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Aust-Agder (until early 20th century) [2]
- Møre og Romsdal (until early 20th century) [2]
- Sør-Austlandet (after ca 1930) [2]
- Sweden:
Namesakes
- Knut Hamsun (né Knud Pedersen, 4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952), Norwegian author and Nobel laureate
(Literature, 1920) - Knut Rokne, in the US known as Knute Kenneth Rockne (4 March 1888 - 31 April 1931), American football player and coach with Norwegian roots
- Knut Nystedt (3 September 1915 – 8 December 2014), Norwegian orchestral and choral composer
- Knut Andersen (9 May 1931 – 17 June 2019), Norwegian film director
- Knut Robert Faldbakken (born 31 August 1941), Norwegian novelist
- Knut Knudsen (born 12 October 1950), Norwegian cyclist
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[9] |
  |
4473 | 14130 | 11 | 56 | 4462 | 14074 |
| Finland[10] |
  |
n.a. |
1429 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1429 |
| Denmark[11] |
 |
130 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
130 | n.a. |
 Iceland[12] |
  |
1 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[13] |
|
0 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[14] |
|
23460 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
23460 | 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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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Knut (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables