Scandinavian family name etymology

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The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages use surnames. They often include family name affixes like "-sen" originally meaning "son".

[edit] Top 20 Danish surnames

The top twenty surnames in Denmark are (as of 2007-01-01)[1]

  1. Jensen
  2. Nielsen
  3. Hansen
  4. Pedersen
  5. Andersen
  6. Christensen
  7. Larsen
  8. Sørensen
  9. Rasmussen
  10. Jørgensen
  11. Petersen
  12. Madsen
  13. Kristensen
  14. Olsen
  15. Thomsen
  16. Christiansen
  17. Poulsen
  18. Johansen
  19. Knudsen
  20. Møller

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