Matts

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Mats

Related Names

See Mats

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mattsen
Mattson
Mattsonn
Mattsson

Female

Mattsdatter
Mattsdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Matts
Genitive:	Matts'

- Finnish
Nominative:	Matts
Genitive:	Mattsin
Partitive:	Mattsia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Matts
Genitive:	Matts'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Matts
Genitive:	Matts' / Matts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 16th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1950-1969

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Härjedalen (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Lappland (19th century) see map

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		1294	2153	0	0	1294	2153
Finland		n.a.	1189	0	0	n.a.	1189
Denmark		5	n.a.	0	n.a.	5	n.a.
Norway		27	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	27	n.a.
Iceland		0	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Matts (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.