Severin

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Severinus (see also -in)

Related Names

See Severinus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Severinsen

Female

Severinsdatter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Severin
Genitive:	Severins

- Finnish
Nominative:	Severin
Genitive:	Severinin
Partitive:	Severiniä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Severin
Genitive:	Severins

- Swedish
Nominative:	Severin
Genitive:	Severins

Name Days

Norway

23 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

23 October

Sweden

23 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: ca 1440
  
• Sweden: 1448

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1885-1909
• Norway: early 20th century and 1990-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Sør-Vestlandet (20th century)
• Sweden: Halland (19th century) see map

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		62	835	0	4	62	831
Finland		n.a.	761	0	0	n.a.	761
Denmark		220	n.a.	0	n.a.	220	n.a.
Greenland		19	94	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		408	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	408	n.a.
Iceland		0	1	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

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Severin (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.