Vilhelm

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Wilhelm

Related Names

See Willihelm

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Vilhelminpoika
Vilhelmsen
Vilhelmson
Vilhelmssen
Vilhelmsson
Vilhelmssøn
Vilhelmsøn

Female

Vilhelmdatter
Vilhelmintytär
Vilhelmsdatter
Vilhelmsdotter
Vilhelmsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Genitive:	Vilhelms

- Faroese
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Accusative:	Vilhelm
Dative:	Vilhelmi
Genitive:	Vilhelms

- Finnish
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Genitive:	Vilhelmin
Partitive:	Vilhelmiä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Accusative:	Vilhelm
Dative:	Vilhelm / Vilhelmi
Genitive:	Vilhelms

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Genitive:	Vilhelms

- Swedish
Nominative:	Vilhelm
Genitive:	Vilhelms

Name Days

Denmark

28 May

Finland

6 April

Norway

28 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 April

Sweden

6 April

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 10th century
• Sweden: 12th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1900-1919
  • 1990-1999
• Denmark:
  • -1910

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Bornholm
• Sweden:
  • Västmanland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg (20 August 1898 - 8 August 1973), Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian and debater

Trivia

• Vilhelm is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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		2224	21293	0	6	2224	21287
Finland		n.a.	23258	0	0	n.a.	23258
Denmark		1008	n.a.	0	n.a.	1008	n.a.
Iceland		95	170	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		44	179	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		255	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	255	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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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