Lauritz

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Laurits [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Laurits

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lauritzen Denmark Norway
Lauritzon Norway
Lauritzsen Norway
Lauritzson Norway Sweden Iceland
Lauritzsön Old Swedish
Lauritzsøn Norway
Lauritzøn Norway

Female

Lauritzdatter Denmark Norway
Lauritzdotter Sweden
Lauritzdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lauritz
Genitive: Lauritz'
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Lauritz
Accusative: Lauritz
Dative: Lauritz
Genitive: Lauritz
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lauritz
Genitive: Lauritz'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lauritz
Genitive: Lauritz' / Lauritz

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

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 Denmark[10]
761
n.a.
0
n.a.
761
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
31 177 0 0 31 177
Greenland Greenland[12]
18 114
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
7 0 0
n.a.
7
Norway Norway[15]
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

Name statistics for Lauritz (m) Sources: [11][10][15][14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Lauritz (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Niels Cl. Hansen: Bøndernavnene i Ribe Amt i 16. Århundrede (1933)
  8. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no