Anders

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and modern form of Andræs ^[1]

Related Names

See Andreas

Name Days

Norway

30 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

30 November

Sweden

30 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1396 ^[1]

Namesakes

Anders And is the Danish name for Donald Duck

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		3	9	82135	192303
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	35080	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	16413	19834
Finland[5]		n.a.	2	n.a	11371
#: 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^[2][3][4][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi