Magdalene

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Female Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish and Norwegian variant form of Magdalena (see also -lene)

Related Names

See Magdalena

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Magdalene
Genitive:	Magdalenes

- Finnish
Nominative:	Magdalene
Genitive:	Magdalenen
Partitive:	Magdalenea

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Magdalene
Genitive:	Magdalenes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Magdalene
Genitive:	Magdalenes

Name Days

Denmark

22 July

Denmark

28 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 15th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • Top 15 in the 17th century in Nakskov
  • -1910
  • -1950
• Sweden:
  • 1865-1899
  • 1910-1939
• Norway:
  • early 20th century
  • 1990-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Sønderjylland
• Norway: Nordland
• Sweden: Sydsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 120 people were named Magdalene (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %)

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&
Greenland		54	251	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		171	n.a.	171	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		24	135	24	135	0	0
Finland		n.a.	17	n.a.	17	0	0
Norway		51	n.a.	51	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 Magdalene.