Frantz

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

German variant spelling of Franz [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Franz

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Frantzen Denmark Norway
Frantzøn Denmark

Female

Frantzdatter Denmark Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Frantz
Genitive: Frantz'
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Frantz
Genitive: Frantz'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Frantz
Genitive: Frantz' / Frantz

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden: 1476 [2]
  • Denmark: appears in the baptism registers of Skast herred (Næsbjerg, Øse, Fåborg, Grimstrup, Årre) in the period 1656-1660 [1]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 30 people were named Frantz (percentage of first or only given name: 70 %) [6]

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[7]
198
n.a.
0
n.a.
198
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
10 40 0 0 10 40
Greenland Greenland[9]
4 22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
4 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
6 0 0
n.a.
6
Norway Norway[12]
103
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
103
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 Frantz.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no