Frithiof

Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Swedish younger form of Friþiófr

Related Names

See Friðþjófr

Patronyms (male)

Frithiofson
Frithiofsson

Patronyms (female)

Frithiofsdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Frithiof
Genitive:	Frithiofs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Frithiof
Genitive:	Frithiofin
Partitive:	Frithiofia

- Swedish
Nominative:	Frithiof
Genitive:	Frithiofs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1809
• Denmark: 19th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: before 1920

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: København, Bornholm

Namesakes

• Alarik Frithiof Holmgren, 22nd October, 1831 - 14th August, 1897, Swedish physiologist

Statistics

Name Count per Country

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		0	1	19	216
Denmark		0	n.a.	14	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	4	n.a.
Finland		0	0	n.a.	228
#: 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 Frithiof.

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