Ted

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) English pet form of Edward (see Eadweard) [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) English short form of Theodore (see Theodorus) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Ted
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Tedd
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Swedish
Tedh Swedish
Thed Swedish

See also Teddy

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ted
Genitive: Teds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ted
Genitive: Tedin
Partitive: Tediä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ted
Genitive: Teds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ted
Genitive: Teds

Name Day

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

9 November

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad (18 February 1956 – 22 June 1997), Swedish singer, songwriter and musician

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 907 people were named Ted (percentage of first or only given name: 88 %) [5]

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 Sweden[6]
3879 5450 2 2 3877 5448
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
383 0 0
n.a.
383
Denmark Denmark[8]
43
n.a.
0
n.a.
43
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 48
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
250
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
250
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Ted (m) Sources: [6][8][10][7]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no