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Female Name
Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Low German variant form of Maike (see also -ken) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Maiken
|
Genitive: |
Maikens
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Maiken
|
Genitive: |
Maikenin
|
Partitive: |
Maikenia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Maiken
|
Genitive: |
Maikens
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Maiken
|
Genitive: |
Maikens
|
Name Day
Norway
|
7 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Maiken Caspersen Falla (born 13 August 1990), Norwegian cross-country skier
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 100 people were named Maiken (percentage of first or only given name: 55 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[7] |
|
3120 |
n.a. |
3120 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
146 |
305 |
146 |
305 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
31 |
n.a. |
31 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[10] |
|
3 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
2466 |
n.a. |
2466 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [8][7][11][9]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [12]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables