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Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Old Danish male name see Sam 1, for the female name see Sam f
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) English short form of Samuel [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) English short form of Samson [2]
Related Names
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Sam
|
Genitive: |
Sams
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Sam
|
Genitive: |
Samin
|
Partitive: |
Samia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Sam
|
Genitive: |
Sams
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Sam
|
Genitive: |
Sams
|
Name Day
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
20 August
|
Sweden
|
1 September
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 964 people were named Sam m (percentage of first or only given name: 85 %) [6]
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& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
6097 |
7831 |
167 |
259 |
5930 |
7572 |
Denmark[8] |
|
518 |
n.a. |
30 |
n.a. |
488 |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
858 |
n.a. |
20 |
n.a. |
838 |
Greenland[10] |
|
4 |
16 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[11] |
|
7 |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
566 |
n.a. |
19 |
n.a. |
547 |
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
Sources: [7][8][12][9]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [13]
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables