Arthur

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling (English, German) of Artur

Related Names

See Artur

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Arthurinpoika
Arthursen
Arthurson
Arthursson

Female

Arthurintytär
Arthursdatter
Arthursdotter
Arthursdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Arthur
Genitive:	Arthurs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Arthur
Genitive:	Arthurin
Partitive:	Arthuria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Arthur
Accusative:	Arthur
Dative:	Arthuri
Genitive:	Arthurs

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Arthur
Genitive:	Arthurs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Arthur
Genitive:	Arthurs

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 1819
• Iceland: 1910

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: -1910

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Lolland-Falster
• Sweden: Bohuslän (19th century) see map

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		1179	5387	2	9	1177	5378
Denmark		3288	n.a.	0	n.a.	3288	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	3079	0	0	n.a.	3079
Iceland		38	54	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	7	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1461	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	1461	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Arthur (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.