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Ross
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Usage
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Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
English name
Transferred use of a Scottish and English surname derived from a place name.
Gaelic ros = 'promontory', 'headland' [1]
Related Names
| Ross | ♂ |   |
|
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| VALD | see Rosvald |
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ross |
| Genitive: | Ross' |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ross |
| Genitive: | Rossin |
| Partitive: | Rossia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ross |
| Genitive: | Ross' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ross |
| Genitive: | Ross' / Ross |
Further Information
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[2] |
 |
90 | 270 | 3 | 23 | 87 | 247 |
| Finland[3] |
 |
n.a. |
160 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
160 |
| Denmark[4] |
|
53 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
52 | n.a. |
 Iceland[5] |
  |
1 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[6] |
|
0 | 8 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[7] |
|
55 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
55 | 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ross.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no