Valter

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Walter [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Waltheri

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Valtersson Iceland

Female

Valtersdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Valter
Genitive: Valters
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Valter
Genitive: Valterin
Partitive: Valteria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Valter
Accusative: Valter
Dative: Valter
Genitive: Valters
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Valter
Genitive: Valters
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Valter
Genitive: Valters

Name Days

Norway Norway

12 October

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

29 January

Sweden Sweden

17 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 19351 people were named Valter (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [8]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[9]
3895 10533 0 2 3895 10531
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
5987 0 0
n.a.
5987
Denmark Denmark[11]
154
n.a.
0
n.a.
154
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
1 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
147
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
147
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Valter (m) Sources: [9][11][13][10]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Valter (m) Sources: [15]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. details see Name Statistic tables