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Usage
Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Waldemar [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Waldemar
Male
Valdemarinpoika
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Valdemarsen
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Valdemarson
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Valdemarssen
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Valdemarsson
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Valdemarssøn
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Valdemarsøn
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Female
Valdemardatter
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Valdemardotter
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Valdemarintytär
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Valdemarsdatter
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Valdemarsdotter
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Valdemardóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Valdemar
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Genitive: |
Valdemars
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Valdemar
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Genitive: |
Valdemarin
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Partitive: |
Valdemaria
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Valdemar
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Accusative: |
Valdemar
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Dative: |
Valdemar
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Genitive: |
Valdemars
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Valdemar
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Genitive: |
Valdemars
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Valdemar
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Genitive: |
Valdemars
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Name Days
Finland
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18 April
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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18 April
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Sweden
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18 April
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Valdemar I (14 January 1131 – 12 May 1182), also known as Valdemar the Great, King of Denmark from 1146 until his death in 1182
- Valdemar II (9 May 1170 or 28 June 1170 – 28 March 1241), later called Valdemar Sejr, King of Denmark from 1202 until his death in 1241
- Valdemar Birgersson (1239 – 26 December 1302), King of Sweden from 1250–1275
- Valdemar den Unge (the Young, sometimes called Valdemar III) (c. 1209 – 28 November 1231), King of Denmark from 1218 until his death
- Valdemar Magnusson (c. early 1280s – 16 February 1318), Swedish prince, heir to the throne of Sweden, and Duke of Finland
- Valdemar III (1314–1364), King of Denmark from 1326 to 1329 briefly when underage, as well as from 1325–26 and from 1330-1364 Duke of Schleswig as Valdemar V
- Valdemar IV Atterdag (the epithet meaning "A New Dawn") (c. 1320 – 24 October 1375), King of Denmark from 1340 to 1375
- Prince Valdemar of Denmark (27 October 1858 – 14 January 1939), member of the Danish Royal Family, the youngest son of Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel
- Valdemar Poulsen (23 November 1869 – 23 July 1942), Danish engineer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 36,830 people were named Valdemar (percentage of first or only given name: 1 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Finland[9] |
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n.a. |
20401 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
20401 |
Sweden[10] |
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1383 |
12622 |
0 |
4 |
1383 |
12618 |
Denmark[11] |
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6073 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
6073 |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
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42 |
55 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
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21 |
65 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
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108 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
108 |
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
Sources: [10][11][14][9]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables