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Sture

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse stúra = 'downhearted, crestfallen' or 'obstinate' [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Sture ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Stureson Sweden
Sturesson Sweden

Female

Sturedotter Sweden
Sturesdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sture
Genitive: Stures
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sture
Genitive: Sturen
Partitive: Sturea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sture
Genitive: Stures
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sture
Genitive: Stures

Name Days

Norway Norway

27 October

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

5 February

Sweden Sweden

13 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Sture Allén (31 December 1928 - 20 June 2022), Swedish professor of computational linguistics, secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999
  • Sture Sivertsen (born 16 April 1966), Norwegian Cross-country skier

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[5]
4068 12856 0 0 4068 12856
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 538 0 0
n.a.
 538
Denmark Denmark[7]
32
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 32
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
393
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 393
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Sture (m) Sources: [5][7][8][6]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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