Balder

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Baldr [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Baldr

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Balder
Genitive: Balders
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Balder
Genitive: Balderin
Partitive: Balderia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Balder
Genitive: Balders
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Balder
Genitive: Balders

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 11 people were named Balder (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %) [4]

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&
Denmark Denmark[6]
405
n.a.
0
n.a.
405
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
104 244 0 0 104 244
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
25 0 0
n.a.
25
Norway Norway[9]
361
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
361
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Balder (m) Sources: [7][6][9][8]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/