Fritjof

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Frithiof [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Friðþjófr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fritjofsen Norway
Fritjofson Sweden
Fritjofsson Sweden

Female

Fritjofsdatter Norway
Fritjofsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Fritjof
Genitive: Fritjofs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Fritjof
Genitive: Fritjofin
Partitive: Fritjofia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Fritjof
Genitive: Fritjofs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Fritjof
Genitive: Fritjofs

Name Day

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

19 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 794 people were named Fritjof (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %) [7]

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[9]
104 550 0 0 104 550
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
275 0 0
n.a.
275
Denmark Denmark[11]
20
n.a.
0
n.a.
20
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
105
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
105
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 Fritjof.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1890 https://riksarkivet.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/