Christer

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Christiern ^[1]

Related Names

Christer	♂
Crister	♂
Krester	♂
Krister	♂

Name Day

Norway

15 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1484 (Halland) ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	1	26028	60621
Norway[3]		0	0	2410	2916
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	121	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	3464
#: 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][4][3][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

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

References

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