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Pages in category "Icelandic masculine given names" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Icelandic given names" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. ! Icelandic Naming Committee
A simple family tree showing the Icelandic patronymic naming system. Icelandic names are names used by people from Iceland.Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world in that they are patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.
Icelandic given names (2 C, 1 P) Icelandic-language surnames (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Icelandic names" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Hulda Jakobsdóttir (1911–1998), Iceland's first woman mayor Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir , former prime minister, also the world's first openly gay head of government Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson , former foreign minister, ambassador
Icelandic masculine given names (117 P) N. ... Pages in category "Scandinavian masculine given names" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total.
Passport of Blær Bjarkardóttir Rúnarsdóttir, using Stúlka (Icelandic for "girl") in place of her real given name. The committee refused to allow Blær Bjarkardóttir Rúnarsdóttir (born 1997) to be registered under the name given to her as a baby, on the grounds that the masculine noun blær ("gentle breeze" in Icelandic) could be used only as a man's name.
The Icelandic Naming Committee (Icelandic: Mannanafnanefnd) maintained preapproved lists of male and female names, with names not on the list - or on a different gender's list - typically denied. Earlier court cases had carved out exceptions, such as the names Blær (approved for women after a 2013 court case), [ 21 ] [ 23 ] Auður (approved ...