Erland

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Erlandr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Old High German name, combination of EIR and LAND [6] [7]

3) Old High German name, combination of HER and LAND [6] [7]

Related Names

Eerla
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Eerlanni
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Eerlanti
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Eerlantti
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Erla
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Erlan
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Erland
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Erlanti
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Erlantti
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Ærland
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Ärlan
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Ärland
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Äärlanni
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See also Edland, Eland, Elland, Erlandr, Elanti, Verland

For female forms see Erlanda

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Erlandsen Norway
Erlandson Sweden
Erlandsson Norway Sweden

Female

Erlandsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Erland
Genitive: Erlands
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Erland
Genitive: Erlandin
Partitive: Erlandia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Erland
Genitive: Erlands
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Erland
Genitive: Erlands

Name Days

Norway Norway

14 June

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

3 November

Sweden Sweden

8 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

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[10]
1237 7899 0 0 1237 7899
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
2737 0 0
n.a.
2737
Denmark Denmark[12]
535
n.a.
0
n.a.
535
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
818
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
818
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
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 Erland (m) Sources: [10][12][13][11]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Erland (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  8. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/