Moritz

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

German variant form of Mauritz

Related Names

See Mauritius

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Moritzen
Moritzsen
Moritzson

Female

Moritzdatter
Moritzdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Moritz
Genitive:	Moritz'

- Finnish
Nominative:	Moritz
Genitive:	Moritzin
Partitive:	Moritzia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Moritz
Accusative:	Moritz
Dative:	Moritz
Genitive:	Moritz

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Moritz
Genitive:	Moritz'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Moritz
Genitive:	Moritz' / Moritz

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 September

Sweden

22 September

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1579

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1900-1909
  • 1930-1939
• Norway:
  • 1925-1930
  • 2000-2005

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Bergen

The German pronunciation of Moritz can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de.

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		139	261	0	2	139	259
Finland		n.a.	275	0	0	n.a.	275
Denmark		98	n.a.	0	n.a.	98	n.a.
Iceland		3	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		79	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	79	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 Moritz.