Albert

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

German short form of Adalbert ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Adalberaht

Name Days

Denmark

30 August

Finland

24 April

Norway

24 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

24 April

Sweden

30 August

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Albert
Accusative:	Albert
Dative:	Alberti
Genitive:	Alberts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1283 ^[3]

Namesakes

Albert Laurentius Johannes Engström, Swedish Artist (1869-1940)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	2586	n.a
Sweden[5]		0	17	2398	10570
Norway[6]		0	0	719	1114
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	10511
#: 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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[5][4][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

Sources: ^{[5] [4] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi