Fred

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) English and German short form of names containing the name element FRID ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) fred is also the modern Swedish, Danish and Norwegian vocabulary word for 'peace' ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Fred	♂
Fredi	♂
Fredly	♂
Fredy	♂

See also:
Female forms: Freda
Variant forms: Feeti, Freddy, Freeti, Reete, Veeti

Name Days

Norway

14 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

18 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1888 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		1	4	1637	3021
Norway[5]		0	0	421	1816
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	66	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	369
#: 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][6][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

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