Vilhelm

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Wilhelm ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Willihelm

Name Days

Denmark

28 May

Finland

6 April

Norway

28 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 April

Sweden

6 April

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Accusative:	Vilhelm
Dative:	Vilhelmi
Genitive:	Vilhelms

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 12th century ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		0	8	1499	23532
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	505	n.a
Norway[7]		0	0	136	215
Finland[8]		n.a.	2	n.a	22319
#: 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][6][7][8]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi