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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Old Norse
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Pet form of Lavrants [1] [2]
2) Pet form of Lars [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See also Brasse
For female forms see Lassine
Male
Lassen
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Lassesen
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Lasseson
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Lassessen
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Lassesson
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Lassessøn
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Lassesøn
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Female
Lassedatter
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Lassesdatter
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Lassesdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Lasse
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Genitive: |
Lasses
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Lasse
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Genitive: |
Lassen
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Partitive: |
Lassea
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Lasse
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Genitive: |
Lasses
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Lasse
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Genitive: |
Lasses
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Name Days
Finland
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10 August
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Norway
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10 August
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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10 August
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Lars "Lasse" Kolstad (10 January 1922 – 14 January 2012), Norwegian actor and singer
- Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm (born 9 December 1943), Swedish composer, lyricist and singer
- Lars "Lasse" Nils Berghagen (born 13 May 1945), Swedish singer, songwriter and actor
- Lars Fredrik "Lasse" Qvigstad (born 2 February 1946), Norwegian jurist
- Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström (born 2 June 1946), Swedish film director and screenwriter
- Lars Göran Bertil "Lasse" Lindbom (born 30 March 1949) Swedish artist, musician and music producer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 668 people were named Lasse (percentage of first or only given name: 69 %) [7]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[10] |
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16536 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
16536 |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
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n.a. |
13855 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
13855 |
Sweden[12] |
|
1300 |
2156 |
0 |
3 |
1300 |
2153 |
Greenland[13] |
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26 |
45 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
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5 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
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5484 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
5484 |
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
Sources: [12][10][15][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Lasse (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables