Moritz

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

German variant form of Mauritz [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Mauritius

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Moritzen Denmark Norway
Moritzsen Norway
Moritzson Iceland

Female

Moritzdatter Denmark Norway
Moritzdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Moritz
Genitive: Moritz'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Moritz
Genitive: Moritzin
Partitive: Moritzia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Moritz
Accusative: Moritz
Dative: Moritz
Genitive: Moritz
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Moritz
Genitive: Moritz'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Moritz
Genitive: Moritz' / Moritz

Name Days

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

22 September

Sweden Sweden

22 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[7]
139 261 0 2 139 259
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
275 0 0
n.a.
275
Denmark Denmark[9]
98
n.a.
0
n.a.
98
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
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.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no