Pehr

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling of Per

Related Names

See Per

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Pehr
Genitive:	Pehrs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Pehr
Genitive:	Pehrin
Partitive:	Pehriä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Pehr
Genitive:	Pehrs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Pehr
Genitive:	Pehrs

Further Information

Period of Usage

• Norway: -1989

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1950-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Lappland (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige
  • Gotland
  • Östsverige

Namesakes

• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (15 December 1861 - 29 February 1944), Finnish prime minister (1917-1918 and 1930-1931) and Finnish president (1931-1937)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 505 people were named Pehr (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %)

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		381	980	0	0	381	980
Finland		n.a.	458	0	0	n.a.	458
Denmark		17	n.a.	0	n.a.	17	n.a.
Norway		6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	6	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Pehr (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.