Fredrik

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Frederik [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Frederik

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fredrikinpoika Finland
Fredriksen Denmark Norway
Fredrikson Norway Sweden
Fredrikssen Norway
Fredriksson Norway Sweden
Fredrikssøn Norway
Fredriksøn Norway

Female

Fredrikdatter Norway
Fredrikintytär Finland
Fredriksdatter Denmark Norway
Fredriksdotter Norway Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Fredrik
Genitive: Fredriks
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Fredrik
Genitive: Fredrikin
Partitive: Fredrikiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Fredrik
Genitive: Fredriks
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Fredrik
Genitive: Fredriks

Name Days

Norway Norway

14 November

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

18 July

Sweden Sweden

18 July

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: [ˈfreːdrɪk]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 42609 people were named Fredrik (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [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[10]
51758 96492 3 11 51755 96481
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
12496 0 0
n.a.
12496
Denmark Denmark[12]
434
n.a.
0
n.a.
434
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
3 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
14546
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
14546
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 0
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Fredrik (m) Sources: [10][12][14][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Fredrik (m) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Fredrik (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  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
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. details see Name Statistic tables