Franz

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

German short form of Franziskus (see Franciscus) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Frands
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Frandtz
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Frans
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Fransee
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Fransi
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Franssa
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Fransse
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Franssi
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Franssu
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Fransu
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Frants
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Frantz
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Franz
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Frasu
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Finish

See also Fara, Ferenc, Pransu, Ransu
For female forms see also Fransilia, Fransina

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Franzen Denmark Norway
Franzén Sweden
Franzon Sweden
Franzsen Norway
Franzson Iceland Sweden

Female

Franzdatter Denmark Norway
Franzdotter Sweden
Franzdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Franz
Genitive: Franz'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Franz
Genitive: Franzin
Partitive: Franzia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Franz
Accusative: Franz
Dative: Franz
Genitive: Franz
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Franz
Genitive: Franz'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Franz
Genitive: Franz' / Franz

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868), Swedish Romantic composer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 886 people were named Franz (percentage of first or only given name: 60 %) [10]

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[12]
556 1750 0 0 556 1750
Denmark Denmark[13]
335
n.a.
1
n.a.
334
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
517 0 0
n.a.
517
Iceland Iceland[15]
30 85
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
8 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
162
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
162
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

Name statistics for Franz (m) Sources: [12][13][17][14]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Franz (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Franz (m)


References

  1. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no