Friedrich

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

German variant form of Friederich [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Frithuric

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Friedrichsson Iceland

Female

Friedrichsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Friedrich
Genitive: Friedrichs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Friedrich
Genitive: Friedrichin
Partitive: Friedrichiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Friedrich
Accusative: Friedrich
Dative: Friedrich
Genitive: Friedrichs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Friedrich
Genitive: Friedrichs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Friedrich
Genitive: Friedrichs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 815 people were named Friedrich (percentage of first or only given name: 36 %) [7]


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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[8]
102 569 0 0 102 569
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
413 0 0
n.a.
413
Denmark Denmark[10]
69
n.a.
0
n.a.
69
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
27
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
27
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Friedrich.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/