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Male Name
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Old High German name
Combination of FRID and ULF [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
For female forms see Fridolfa
Male
Fridolfinpoika
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Fridolfsson
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Female
Fridolfintytär
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Fridolfsdotter
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Cognates
Grammar
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Fridolf
|
Genitive: |
Fridolfin
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Partitive: |
Fridolfia
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Fridolf
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Genitive: |
Fridolfs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Fridolf
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Genitive: |
Fridolfs
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Name Days
 Finland (Swedish Language)
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22 January
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Sweden
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12 January
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 3901 people were named Fridolf (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
877 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
877 |
Sweden[9] |
|
69 |
425 |
0 |
0 |
69 |
425 |
Denmark[10] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
|
0 |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
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. |
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Fridolf (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/