About male danish names
How male danish names are built
A given name pairs with a surname, drawn from 256 male and 287 female given names against a 265-entry surname pool. Anthoni Kiærskou is a male given name plus surname; Jensigne Dinesen is the female version; Stine Neergaard is another female pull.
Anthoni Kiærskou
Anthoni (given, male bank) + Kiærskou (surname)
Jensigne Dinesen
Jensigne (given, female bank) + Dinesen (surname)
Stine Neergaard
Stine (given, female bank) + Neergaard (surname)
Sourced from Attested public Danish name data (Wikipedia and Wiktionary category memberships; Wikidata given names by gender) (CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikidata CC0 1.0).
Naming notes
Female draws use the female given-name bank, male draws the male one, and both close on the shared surname pool of 265 entries. Surname entries are stored with their Danish spellings, including æ and double-vowel forms (Kiærskou, Neergaard) and -sen forms (Dinesen). Region label: Denmark. The three banks are close in size, so given names and surnames vary at a similar rate.
Questions about male danish names
- How is a Danish name assembled?
- A given name is drawn from the male 256-entry bank or the female 287-entry bank, then a surname from the shared 265-entry pool, always two words.
- Why do the surnames keep æ and aa spellings?
- The surname entries are stored with those characters intact (Kiærskou, Neergaard) rather than being flattened to plain ASCII.
- How large are the banks?
- 256 male and 287 female given names feed two patterns that share a 265-entry surname pool.