Laurens

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Laurenz [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Laurenz

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Laurensson Old Swedish
Laurenssøn Old Swedish

Female

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Laurens
Genitive: Laurens'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Laurens
Genitive: Laurensin
Partitive: Laurensia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Laurens
Genitive: Laurens'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Laurens
Genitive: Laurens'

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 26 people were named Laurens (percentage of first or only given name: 23 %) [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&
Sweden Sweden[5]
22 44 0 2 22 42
Denmark Denmark[6]
25
n.a.
0
n.a.
25
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
32 0 0
n.a.
32
Norway Norway[8]
19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
19
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Laurens.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/