Robert

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Hrōdebert ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Hrōdebert

Name Days

Denmark

7 September

Faroe Islands

7 September

Finland

7 June

Norway

7 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 June

Sweden

7 June

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Robert
Accusative:	Robert
Dative:	Roberti
Genitive:	Roberts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1219 ^[2]

Namesakes

Carl Robert Olof Gustafsson (born 20 December 1964), Swedish comedian

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		2	16	27180	55692
Norway[6]		0	0	5353	7750
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	4692	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	3	n.a	11059
#: 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^[5][7][6][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

Sources: ^{[5] [7] [6] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi