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Frits
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Fritz [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Fritz
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Fritsen |
|
| Fritssen |
|
| Fritsson |
|
| Fritssøn |
|
Female
| Fritsdatter |
|
| Fritsdotter |
|
| Fritsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frits |
| Genitive: | Frits' |
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frits |
| Accusative: | Frits |
| Dative: | Fritsi |
| Genitive: | Frits |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frits |
| Genitive: | Fritsin |
| Partitive: | Fritsiä |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frits |
| Accusative: | Frits |
| Dative: | Frits |
| Genitive: | Frits |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frits |
| Genitive: | Frits' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Frits |
| Genitive: | Frits' / Frits |
Name Day
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|
10 October |
Further Information
- Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name [8]
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Denmark:
- Sweden:
- Västergötland (19th century) see map [10]
- Bohuslän (19th century) see map [10]
- Skåne (19th century) see map [10]
- Västsverige [9]
- Dalarna [9]
- Nordsverige [9]
Namesakes
- Norway: Frits Thaulow (20 October 1847 – 5 November 1906), Norwegian Impressionist painter
- Denmark: Frits Helmuth Pedersen (3 July 1931 – 12 December 2004), Danish film actor
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 1144 people were named Frits (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %) [9]
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& | |
| Denmark[11] |
  |
945 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
945 | n.a. |
| Sweden[12] |
 |
71 | 225 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 225 |
| Finland[13] |
 |
n.a. |
35 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
35 |
 Greenland[14] |
  |
5 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[15] |
|
224 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
224 | 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. |
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Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Frits (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no