Folmer

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Frisian variant form of Volkmar [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Volkmar

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Folmersen Denmark
Folmersson Iceland

Female

Folmersdatter Denmark
Folmersdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Folmer
Genitive: Folmers
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Folmer
Accusative: Folmer
Dative: Folmer
Genitive: Folmers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Folmer
Genitive: Folmers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Folmer
Genitive: Folmers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 24 people were named Folmer (percentage of first or only given name: 46 %) [5]

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&
Denmark Denmark[6]
284
n.a.
0
n.a.
284
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
6 16 0 0 6 16
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
3 0 0
n.a.
3
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
0 1
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 Folmer.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/