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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling of Laurits [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Laurits
Male
Lauritzen
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Lauritzon
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Lauritzsen
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Lauritzson
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Lauritzsön
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Lauritzsøn
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Lauritzøn
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Female
Lauritzdatter
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Lauritzdotter
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Lauritzdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Lauritz
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Genitive: |
Lauritz'
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Lauritz
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Accusative: |
Lauritz
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Dative: |
Lauritz
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Genitive: |
Lauritz
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Lauritz
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Genitive: |
Lauritz'
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Lauritz
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Genitive: |
Lauritz' / Lauritz
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior (20 March 1890 – 19 March 1973) Danish opera singer
- Lauritz Jacob Johnson (21 September 1906 – 7 Februar 1992), Norwegian novelist, children's writer, and radio and television host
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 299 people were named Lauritz (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [9]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[10] |
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761 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
761 |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
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31 |
177 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
177 |
Greenland[12] |
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18 |
114 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
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3 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
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n.a. |
7 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
7 |
Norway[15] |
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434 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
434 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [11][10][15][14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Niels Cl. Hansen: Bøndernavnene i Ribe Amt i 16. Århundrede (1933)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no