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Peer
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Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
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Origin and Meaning
Creative spelling (also Low German, Frisian and Dutch) of Per [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Per
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Peer |
| Genitive: | Peers |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Peer |
| Genitive: | Peers |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Peer |
| Genitive: | Peers |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Sweden: (1494)
Strongest Period of Usage
Namesakes
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[6] |
  |
1400 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
1400 | n.a. |
| Norway[7] |
 |
177 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
177 | n.a. |
| Sweden[8] |
|
69 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 128 |
 Finland[9] |
 |
n.a. |
11 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
11 |
 Greenland[10] |
 |
3 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Peer.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/