Erich

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Male Male Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) German variant form of Erik (see ÆiríkR) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) German younger form of Ewaric [1]

Related Names

Eric
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
Erich
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 Swedish Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Erichsen Denmark Norway
Erichson Sweden
Erichssen Norway
Erichsson Sweden

Female

Erichdatter Denmark
Erichsdatter Denmark Norway
Erichsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Erich
Genitive: Erichs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Erich
Genitive: Erichin
Partitive: Erichiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Erich
Genitive: Erichs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Erich
Genitive: Erichs

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[9]
144 612 0 3 144 609
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
335 0 0
n.a.
335
Denmark Denmark[11]
113
n.a.
1
n.a.
112
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
2 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
66
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
66
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 Erich.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  4. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Niels Cl. Hansen: Bøndernavnene i Ribe Amt i 16. Århundrede (1933)
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no