Gudmund

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Faroese
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Guðmundr

Related Names

See Guðmundr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gudmundsen
Gudmundson
Gudmundssen
Gudmundsson
Gudmundssøn
Gudmundsøn

Female

Gudmunddatter
Gudmundsdatter
Gudmundsdotter

Name Days

Denmark

16 March

Norway

16 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

16 January

Sweden

2 April

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1910-1929
• Norway: 1925-1940
• Sweden: 1930-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Småland (20th century)
  • Härjedalen (19th century) see map
• Norway:
  • Austlandet
  • Sør-Vestlandet
  • Trøndelag (after the Protestant Reformation)
• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Fyn

Namesakes

• Friherre (Baron) Gudmund Jöran Adlerbeth (21st May, 1751 - 7th October, 1818), Swedish author and politician
• Gudmund Hernes (born 25 March 1941), Norwegian sociology professor and politician

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		67	477	0	0	67	477
Denmark		146	n.a.	0	n.a.	146	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	35	0	0	n.a.	35
Greenland		4	27	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		0	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		886	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	886	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

Swedish Regional Distribution

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