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Viking
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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of VíkingR (see also -ing) [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See VíkingR
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Viking |
| Genitive: | Vikings |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Viking |
| Genitive: | Vikingin |
| Partitive: | Vikingiä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Viking |
| Genitive: | Vikings |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Viking |
| Genitive: | Vikings |
Name Days
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|
19 October |
From 1993-2000 Viking had a name day in Sweden (22th March)
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Viking Mestad (12 January 1930 – 15 December 2013), Norwegian banker and politician
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[5] |
  |
568 | 4598 | 0 | 20 | 568 | 4578 |
| Finland[6] |
 |
n.a. |
1674 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1674 |
| Denmark[7] |
 |
4 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
 |
22 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
22 | n.a. |
 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/