Alfred

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Modern form of the Old English name Ælfræd ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) The name was early wrong interpreted to be a Nordic name composed of the name elements ALA and FRID ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Alfred	♂
Alfreð	♂
Alfrede	♀
Alfreeti	♂
Alfrid	♂
Allfrid	♂

See also Friði

Name Days

Finland

29 October

Norway

3 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 October

Sweden

3 January

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Alfred
Accusative:	Alfred
Dative:	Alfredi
Genitive:	Alfreds

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Alfred
Accusative:	Alfred
Dative:	Alfred
Genitive:	Alfreds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1751 ^[2]

Namesakes

Alfred Bernhard Nobel, (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896), Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	9	4869	11177
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	2386	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	967	1592
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	9738
#: 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^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi