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Niall

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Origin and Meaning

Gaelic name of uncertain meaning. Some theories:

1) Old Irish nél = 'cloud' [1]

2) Old Irish niadh = 'champion' [2]

3) Old Irish ? = 'passionate' [1]

4) Celtic/Irish ? = 'warrior' [3] [4] [1]

Related Names

Neil ♂
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Neill ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Nial ♂
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 Danish Finish Swedish
Niall ♂
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 Irish
Niáll ♂
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 Old Norse
Niel ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Nigel ♂
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Njal ♂
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 Danish Swedish
Njál ♂
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 Faroese
Njála ♀
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 Icelandic
Njáll ♂
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 Icelandic Old Norse
Njálur ♂
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 Faroese
Njell ♂
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 Norwegian
Njædel ♂
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 Norwegian
Njål ♂
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 Norwegian Swedish
Njaal ♂
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 Norwegian

See also Joel, Nelson

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[5]
36 54 0 0 36 54
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 44 0 0
n.a.
 44
Denmark Denmark[7]
21
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 21
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 8
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Niall.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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