Brand

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish and Old Danish form of Brandr ^{[1] [2]}

2) Modern form of Brandr ^{[3] [2]}

3) German equivalent form of Brandr ^[4]

Related Names

See Brandr

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1872 (again, in modern times) ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		0	0	4	5
Sweden[6]		0	1	3	11
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	1	n.a	1
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Brand.

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [5] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi