Rutger

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Hruodgêr

Related Names

See Hruodgêr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rutgersen
Rutgerson
Rutgersson

Female

Rutgersdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Rutger
Genitive:	Rutgers

- Finnish
Nominative:	Rutger
Genitive:	Rutgerin
Partitive:	Rutgeria

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Rutger
Genitive:	Rutgers

- Swedish
Nominative:	Rutger
Genitive:	Rutgers

Name Day

Sweden

2 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1891

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1930-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Møre og Romsdal
  • Aust-Agder
• Sweden:
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map

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		231	1124	0	0	231	1124
Finland		n.a.	21	0	0	n.a.	21
Denmark		2	n.a.	0	n.a.	2	n.a.
Norway		n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	9	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 Rutger (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.