Fritiof

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish variant spelling of Frithiof

Related Names

See Friðþjófr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fritiofson
Fritiofsson

Female

Fritiofsdotter

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Fritiof
Genitive:	Fritiofin
Partitive:	Fritiofia

- Swedish
Nominative:	Fritiof
Genitive:	Fritiofs

Name Day

Sweden

18 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1809
  • 1813 (Stockholm)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1919
  • 1900-1919

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Värmland (19th century) see map
  • Närke (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Västsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 6938 people were named Fritiof (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %)

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		122	979	0	0	122	979
Finland		n.a.	737	0	0	n.a.	737
Denmark		1	n.a.	0	n.a.	1	n.a.
Norway		4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	4	n.a.
Greenland		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 Fritiof (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.