Astrid

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Ástríðr

Related Names

See Ástríðr

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Astridarson

Female

Astridardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Astrid
Genitive:	Astrids

- Faroese
Nominative:	Astrid
Accusative:	Astrid
Dative:	Astrid
Genitive:	Astridar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Astrid
Genitive:	Astridin
Partitive:	Astridia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Astrid
Accusative:	Astrid
Dative:	Astrid
Genitive:	Astridar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Astrid
Genitive:	Astrids

- Swedish
Nominative:	Astrid
Genitive:	Astrids

Name Days

Norway

13 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

27 November

Sweden

27 November

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1820
• Denmark: 19th century
• Iceland: 1910

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1880-1970
  • 2010-
• Sweden:
  • 1900-1919
  • 2005-
• Denmark:
  • 1900-1919
  • 1985-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • After the Protestant Reformation:
    • Oppland
    • Buskerud
    • Rogaland
  • 20th century:
    • Sør-Austlandet
    • Nordland
• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Fyn
• Sweden:
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Medelpad (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Princess Astrid of Sweden (Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra; 17 November 1905 – 29 August 1935), Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold III
• Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (née Ericsson, 14 November 1907 - 28 January 2002), Swedish author of children's books
• Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff (née Bergman, 17 January 1927 - 12 January 2015), Swedish nature photographer and writer

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		15851	41613	15846	41604	5	9
Denmark		8313	n.a.	8313	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	6998	n.a.	6998	0	0
Iceland		33	44	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		18	46	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		16595	n.a.	16595	n.a.	n.a.	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 Astrid (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.