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Fred

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) English and German short form of names containing the name element FRID [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) fred is also the modern Swedish, Danish and Norwegian vocabulary word for 'peace' [1] [2] [4]

Related Names

Fred ♂
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 Swedish
Fredd ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Fredh ♂ Swedish
Freed ♂ Swedish

See also:
Female forms: Freda, Fredsine
Variant forms: Fedde, Feeti, Freddy, Fredly, Fredy, Freeti, Reete, Veeti

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Fred
Genitive: Freds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Fred
Genitive: Fredin
Partitive: Frediä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Fred
Genitive: Freds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Fred
Genitive: Freds

Name Days

Norway Norway

14 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

18 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Fred Børre Lundberg (born 25 December 1969), Norwegian Nordic combined skier

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2610 people were named Fred (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [8]

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]
2200 3887 0 8 2200 3879
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 502 0 0
n.a.
 502
Denmark Denmark[11]
57
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 57
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 68
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
1697
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 1697
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 Fred (m) Sources: [9][11][14][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Fred (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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