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Frede
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Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Frethi [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See *Friþa
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frede |
| Genitive: | Fredes |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frede |
| Genitive: | Fredes |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frede |
| Genitive: | Fredes |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: 13th century [2]
- Norway: 1860 (Modum, Buskerud) [3]
- Sweden: 1874 (born in Denmark) [4]
- Greenland: 1956 [5]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Denmark:
- Sønderjylland (earlier) [2]
- Lolland-Falster (in modern times) [2]
- Sjælland (in modern times [2]
- Sweden:
Namesakes
- Frederik 'Frede' Engelhart Bojsen (22 August 1841 – 4 December 1926), Danish politician and professor
- Frede Castberg (4 July 1893 – 4 November 1977), Norwegian jurist, professor and rector at the University of Oslo and president of the Hague Academy of International Law
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 55 people were named Frede (percentage of first or only given name: 55 %) [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[7] |
  |
2400 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2400 | n.a. |
| Sweden[8] |
  |
20 | 79 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 76 |
| Greenland[9] |
  |
9 | 14 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
5 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
5 |
| Norway[11] |
 |
122 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
122 | 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Frede.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no