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Leif

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Leifr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Leifr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Leifsen Norway
Leifson Norway Sweden
Leifssen Norway
Leifsson Iceland Norway Sweden
Leifssøn Norway
Leifsøn Norway

Female

Leifdatter Norway
Leifdotter Sweden
Leifsdatter Norway
Leifsdotter Norway Sweden
Leifsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Leif
Genitive: Leifs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Leif
Genitive: Leifin
Partitive: Leifiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Leif
Accusative: Leif
Dative: Leif
Genitive: Leifs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Leif
Genitive: Leifs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Leif
Genitive: Leifs

Name Days

Norway Norway

9 October

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

30 June

Sweden Sweden

30 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Leif Juster (né Leif Normann Nilsen) (14 February 1910 – 25 November 1995), Norwegian comedian, singer and actor
  • Leif Gustav Willy Persson (born 12 March 1945), Swedish criminologist and novelist
  • Leif Rantala (26 December 1947 – 8 January 2015), Finland-Swedish linguist
  • Leif Ove Andsnes (born 7 April 1970), Norwegian pianist and chamber musician

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 61985 people were named Leif (percentage of first or only given name: 91 %) [9]
  • Leif was a heavy storm in Norway in November 1997.

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[10]
33083 62862 0 5 33083 62857
Denmark Denmark[11]
13657
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 13657
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 4830 0 0
n.a.
 4830
Greenland Greenland[13]
38 72
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
8 13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
11652
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 11652
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 Leif (m) Sources: [10][11][15][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Leif (m) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Leif (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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