Benedictus

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin benedictus = 'blessed' (see also -us) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

Benedictus
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish
Benediktus
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Norse Swedish

For female forms see Benedicta

See also

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Benedictusson Sweden

Female

Benedictusdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Benedictus
Genitive: Benedictus'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Benedictus
Genitive: Benedictuksen
Partitive: Benedictusta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Benedictus
Genitive: Benedictus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Benedictus
Genitive: Benedictus' / Benedictus

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

21 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

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 Sweden[8]
0 15 0 0 0 15
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
5 0 0
n.a.
5
Denmark Denmark[10]
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
1
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Benedictus.


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  6. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/