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May 1

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Female Female Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Danish name see May 2

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Creative spelling of Maj [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) English pet form of Mary [6] [1]

Related Names

Mae ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
May ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mayarson Iceland

Female

Mayardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: May
Genitive: Mays
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: May
Genitive: Mayn
Partitive: Mayta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: May
Accusative: May
Dative: May
Genitive: Mayar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: May
Genitive: Mays
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: May
Genitive: Mays

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

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[8]
1393 4166 1391 4151 2 15
Denmark Denmark[9]
475
n.a.
 475
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 850
n.a.
 845
n.a.
 5
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 20
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
4 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
8575
n.a.
 8575
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

Name statistics for May (f) Sources: [8][9][13][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for May (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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