Rasmus

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Erasmus ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Erasmus

Name Days

Faroe Islands

3 June

Finland

24 October

Norway

3 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

24 October

Sweden

26 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Rasmus
Accusative:	Rasmus
Dative:	Rasmusi
Genitive:	Rasmusar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1481 ^[2]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Gotland, Bohuslän ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	29763	n.a
Sweden[4]		1	2	14535	16757
Norway[5]		0	0	1147	1499
Finland[6]		n.a.	3	n.a	6449
#: 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][3][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi