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Morten

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern variant form of Martin (see also -en) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Moorta ♂
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Moortat ♂
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Moortenni ♂
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Môrta ♂
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Mortan ♂
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 Faroese Icelandic
Môrtat ♂
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Morte ♂
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 Sami
Mortein ♂
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 Norwegian
Morten ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Sami Swedish
Môrténe ♂
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Morthen ♂
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 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Mortten ♂
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 Danish
Mortu ♂
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 Sami
Mårten ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Maarten ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

For female forms see Mortine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mortensen Denmark Norway
Mortenson Sweden
Mortensson Iceland Sweden

Female

Mortensdatter Denmark Norway
Mortensdotter Sweden
Mortensdóttir Iceland

Combinations

Name
Element    		 Example
HANS see Hansmorten

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Morten
Genitive: Mortens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Morten
Genitive: Mortenin
Partitive: Mortenia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Morten
Accusative: Morten
Dative: Morten
Genitive: Mortens
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Morten
Genitive: Mortens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Morten
Genitive: Mortens

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

11 November

Norway Norway

11 November

Sami Sami

10 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Morten Luther Gudmund Korch (17 January 1876 – 8 October 1954), Danish writer
  • Knud Morten Lange (24 November 1919 - 10 November 2003), Danish mycologist and politician
  • Morten Nielsen (né Karl Bent Lebrecht Nielsen, 3 January 1922 – 29 August 1944), Danish poet
  • Morten Sæther (born 13 May 1959), Norwegian cyclist
  • Morten Harket (born 14 September 1959), Norwegian musician, lead singer of A-ha

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&
Denmark Denmark[8]
33825
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 33825
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
502 662 0 0 502 662
Greenland Greenland[10]
88 197
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 200 0 0
n.a.
 200
Iceland Iceland[12]
8 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
21761
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 21761
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 Morten (m) Sources: [9][8][13][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Morten (m) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Morten (m)


References

  1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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