Erasmus

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin form of the Greek name Ερασμος (Erásmos)

Greek ερασμιος (erasmios) = 'beloved' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Related Names

Erasmus
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

See also Asmus, Elmo, Rasmus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Erasmusarson Iceland

Female

Erasmusardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Erasmus
Genitive: Erasmus'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Erasmus
Genitive: Erasmuksen
Partitive: Erasmusta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Erasmus
Accusative: Erasmus
Dative: Erasmusi
Genitive: Erasmusar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Erasmus
Genitive: Erasmus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Erasmus
Genitive: Erasmus' / Erasmus

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

3 June

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

3 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Saint Erasmus (also Saint Elmo, ?? - circa 303) of Formia, Christian saint and martyr, according to Christian tradition, venerated as the patron saint of sailors and abdominal pain; he is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers

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]
13 46 0 0 13 46
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
62 0 0
n.a.
62
Denmark Denmark[10]
17
n.a.
0
n.a.
17
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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 Erasmus.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  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. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/