Bror

Rate this name:

4.29

(7 votes)

Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Greenlandic

Advertisement:

Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Broder

Related Names

See Bróðir

Patronyms

• Swedish: Brorsson (♂), Brorson (♂), Brorsdotter (♀)
• Norwegian: Brorson (♂)

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Bror
Genitive:	Brors

- Finnish
Nominative:	Bror
Genitive:	Brorin
Partitive:	Broria

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Bror
Genitive:	Brors

- Swedish
Nominative:	Bror
Genitive:	Brors

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

9 January

Sweden

5 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 15th century
  
• Sweden: 1536
• Greenland: 1968

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: before 1910
• Sweden: 1910-1929

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Öland (19th century) see map
  • Medelpad (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (20th century)
  • Västergötland (20th century)
  • Småland (20th century)
• Denmark:
  • Sønderjylland
  • København
• Norway:
  • Sør-Trøndelag

Namesakes

• Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke (25 July 1886 – 4 March 1946), Swedish baron, writer and African big-game hunter

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.

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		4319	16524	0	7	4319	16517
Finland		n.a.	3357	0	0	n.a.	3357
Denmark		275	n.a.	0	n.a.	275	n.a.
Greenland		11	24	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		516	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	516	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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Sources:

Swedish Regional Distribution

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