Frej

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Freyr [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Freyr

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Frej
Genitive: Frejs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Frej
Genitive: Frejin
Partitive: Frejiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Frej
Genitive: Frejs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Frej
Genitive: Frejs

Name Days

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

6 May

Sweden Sweden

23 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 99 people were named Frej (percentage of first or only given name: 78 %) [5]

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[6]
819 1264 4 11 815 1253
Denmark Denmark[7]
975
n.a.
0
n.a.
975
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
375 0 0
n.a.
375
Norway Norway[9]
22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
22
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Frej (m) Sources: [6][7][9][8]


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/