Walter

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

German variant form of Walther [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Waltheri

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Walterinpoika Finland
Waltersen Denmark Norway
Waltersson Iceland Sweden

Female

Walterintytär Finland
Waltersdatter Denmark Norway
Waltersdotter Sweden
Waltersdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Walter
Genitive: Walters
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Walter
Genitive: Walterin
Partitive: Walteria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Walter
Accusative: Walter
Dative: Walter
Genitive: Walters
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Walter
Genitive: Walters
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Walter
Genitive: Walters

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2959 people were named Walter (percentage of first or only given name: 23 %) [7]


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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[8]
3297 7260 0 5 3297 7255
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
2072 0 0
n.a.
2072
Denmark Denmark[10]
850
n.a.
0
n.a.
850
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
20 37
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
591
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
591
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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 Walter (m) Sources: [8][10][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Walter (m) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Walter (m)


References

  1. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. details see Name Statistic tables