Fritjof

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Frithiof

Related Names

See Friðþjófr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fritjofsen
Fritjofson
Fritjofsson

Female

Fritjofsdatter
Fritjofsdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Fritjof
Genitive:	Fritjofs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Fritjof
Genitive:	Fritjofin
Partitive:	Fritjofia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Fritjof
Genitive:	Fritjofs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Fritjof
Genitive:	Fritjofs

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

19 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1827 (Halmstad, Halland)
• Denmark: 19th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1900-1905
• Sweden:
  • -1919
  • 1900-1919
• Denmark:
  • -1920

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • København
  • Bornholm
• Sweden:
  • Nordsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 794 people were named Fritjof (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		104	550	0	0	104	550
Finland		n.a.	275	0	0	n.a.	275
Denmark		20	n.a.	0	n.a.	20	n.a.
Norway		105	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	105	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Fritjof.