Viggo

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Vigge

Related Names

See Vigge

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Viggosen
Viggoson
Viggosson
Viggosøn

Female

Viggosdatter
Viggosdotter
Viggosdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Viggo
Genitive:	Viggos

- Faroese
Nominative:	Viggo
Accusative:	Viggo
Dative:	Viggo
Genitive:	Viggos

- Finnish
Nominative:	Viggo
Genitive:	Viggon
Partitive:	Viggoa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Viggo
Genitive:	Viggos

- Swedish
Nominative:	Viggo
Genitive:	Viggos

Name Days

Norway

15 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: ca 1200
• Norway: 1845 (Trysil) ; 1850 (Mandal)
• Sweden: 1851

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1885-1899 and 1930-1939 and 2000-
• Denmark: 1900-1919
• Norway: 1945-1955

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Nord-Noreg
• Denmark: Fyn, Sjælland

Namesakes

• Viggo Olfert Fischer Kampmann (21 July 1910 – 3 June 1976), leader of the Danish Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Denmark from 1960-1962
• Viggo Peter Mortensen (born 20 October 1958), Danish-American actor

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		6659	7990	0	8	6659	7982
Denmark		4228	n.a.	0	n.a.	4228	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	304	0	0	n.a.	304
Greenland		25	72	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		2	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1338	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	1338	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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