Frits

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Fritz

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

Norway

10 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 15th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1885-1909
• Denmark: 1900-1919
• Norway: 1940-1945

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Fyn
• Sweden:
  • Västergötland (19th century) see map
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Frits Thaulow (20 October 1847 – 5 November 1906), Norwegian Impressionist painter
• Frits Helmuth Pedersen (3 July 1931 – 12 December 2004), Danish film actor

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		945	n.a.	0	n.a.	945	n.a.
Sweden		71	225	0	0	71	225
Finland		n.a.	35	0	0	n.a.	35
Greenland		5	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		n.a.	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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Frits (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.