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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Icelandic
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse name of uncertain meaning. Theories include:
1) Old Norse rán = 'robbery', 'theft' [1]
2) Old Norse rámr = 'hoarse' [2]
Related Names
Male
Ránarson
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Female
Ránardóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see RAN (name element)
Grammar
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Rán
|
Accusative: |
Rán
|
Dative: |
Rán
|
Genitive: |
Ránar
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Rán
|
Accusative: |
Rán
|
Dative: |
Rán
|
Genitive: |
Ránar
|
Further Information
Norse Mythology
- Rán is an Ásynja and the ruler over the realm of the dead at the bottom of the sea to which people who have drowned go. She embodies the sinister side of the sea: In sagas drowning is more or less idiomatically equated with 'falling into Rán's hands.
Rán and her husband Ægir had nine daughters ("billow maidens"), each name reflecting a different characteristic of ocean waves:
[5] [1]
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& |
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Iceland[6] |
|
42 |
486 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[7] |
|
4 |
13 |
4 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[8] |
|
1 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[11] |
|
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 Rán.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/