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Gerhard

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old High German name

Combination of GEIR and HARD [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Geirarðr ♂
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Geirarður ♂
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Geirharður ♂
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Gerard ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gérard ♂
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 French
Gerardo ♂
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 Italian/Spanish
Gerardus ♂
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Gerhard ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Gerhardt ♂
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Gerhardus ♂
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Gerhart ♂
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Gerrard ♂
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See also Gard, Garrett, Gerde, Gerret, Jard, Kai, Kêrarte
For female forms see Gerharda

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gerhardinpoika Finland
Gerhardsen Denmark Norway
Gerhardson Norway Sweden
Gerhardssen Norway
Gerhardsson Iceland Sweden
Gerhardssøn Norway
Gerhardsøn Norway

Female

Gerharddatter Norway
Gerhardintytär Finland
Gerhardsdatter Denmark Norway
Gerhardsdotter Sweden
Gerhardsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gerhard
Genitive: Gerhards
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gerhard
Genitive: Gerhardin
Partitive: Gerhardia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Gerhard
Accusative: Gerhard
Dative: Gerhard
Genitive: Gerhards
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gerhard
Genitive: Gerhards
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gerhard
Genitive: Gerhards

Name Days

Norway Norway

19 July

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

2 January

Sweden Sweden

24 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 13,879 people were named Gerhard (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [8]


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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[10]
690 5435 0 0 690 5435
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 1026 0 0
n.a.
 1026
Denmark Denmark[12]
346
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 346
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
6 10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
4 13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
369
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 369
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Gerhard (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Gerhard (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Gerhard (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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