Fredrik

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Swedish form of Frederik ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Friedrich

Name Days

Norway

14 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

18 July

Sweden

18 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1311 ^[2]

Pronunciation

Swedish: [ˈfreːdrɪk]

Namesakes

Fredrik I, 17th April 1676 – 25th March 1751, prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and King of Sweden from 1720 until his death and (as Frederick I) also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730

Adolf Fredrik, 14th May 1710 – 12th February 1771, King of Sweden from 1751 until his death

Fredrik Bajer, 21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922, Danish writer, teacher, pacifist politician and Nobel laureate (Peace, 1908)

John Fredrik Reinfeldt (* 4 August 1965), Prime Minister of Sweden since 2006

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		1	2	52008	95047
Norway[4]		0	0	11261	13369
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	363	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	11766
#: 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][5][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

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