Selim

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Turkish form of Salim [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Seela
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Seeli
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Seelim
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Seelu
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Seimi
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Selim
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Selmi
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Finish

For female forms see Selima

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Selim
Genitive: Selims
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Selim
Genitive: Selimin
Partitive: Selimiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Selim
Genitive: Selims
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Selim
Genitive: Selims

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

4 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 151 people were named Selim (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [7]

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&
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
1324 0 0
n.a.
1324
Sweden Sweden[9]
334 552 0 20 334 532
Denmark Denmark[10]
129
n.a.
1
n.a.
128
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
4 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
83
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
83
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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 Selim.


References

  1. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/