Gerardus

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Gérard (see also -us) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Gerhard

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gerardus
Genitive: Gerardus'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gerardus
Genitive: Gerarduksen
Partitive: Gerardusta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gerardus
Genitive: Gerardus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gerardus
Genitive: Gerardus' / Gerardus

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Period of Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Gerardus (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [4]

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[5]
35 165 0 0 35 165
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
124 0 0
n.a.
124
Denmark Denmark[7]
21
n.a.
0
n.a.
21
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
22
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Gerardus.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/