Reidun

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Reidunn [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Hreiðunn

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Reidun
Genitive: Reiduns
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Reidun
Genitive: Reiduns
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Reidun
Genitive: Reiduns

Name Days

Norway Norway

28 July

Sweden Sweden

9 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 469 people were named Reidun (percentage of first or only given name: 69 %) [6]

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[7]
280 529 280 529 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
48
n.a.
48
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
12
n.a.
12 0 0
Norway Norway[10]
8945
n.a.
8945
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Reidun (f) Sources: [7][8][10][9]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Reidun (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/