Erik

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of Eiríkr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See ÆiríkR

Name Days

Denmark

18 May

Norway

18 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

18 May

Sweden

18 May

Further Information

Namesakes

Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1931)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		1	6	62771	301941
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	33567	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	15675	20608
Finland[6]		n.a.	3	n.a	40671
#: 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^[3][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi