Ander

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Greek names ending with -ander [1]

2) Variant form of Anders (see Andreas) [1]

3) Variant form of Andor (see Arnþórr) [1]

Related Names

Ander
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Swedish Swedish

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1396 [1]

Predominant Regional Usage

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[3]
18 100 2 2 16 98
Greenland Greenland[4]
0 94
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
87 0 0
n.a.
87
Denmark Denmark[6]
4
n.a.
0
n.a.
4
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
13
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ander (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Ander (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no