Eerik

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Finnish spelling of Erik [1] [2]

2) Greenlandic younger spelling of Êrik [3]

Related Names

See ÆiríkR

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eerik
Genitive: Eerikin
Partitive: Eerikiä
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eerik
Genitive: Eeriks

Name Day

Finland Finland

18 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 48 people were named Eerik (percentage of first or only given name: 17 %) [5]

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&
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
10817 0 0
n.a.
10817
Sweden Sweden[7]
26 261 0 0 26 261
Denmark Denmark[8]
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
1
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Eerik.


References

  1. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. The Greenland Language Secretariat Oqaasileriffik http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/kl
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/