Faste

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish and modern form of Fasti [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Swedish faste = 'witness at a Thing' [2]

Related Names

Faste
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fastesen Norway
Fasteson Old Swedish Norway Sweden
Fastessen Norway
Fastesson Sweden
Fastesøn Norway

Female

Fastedatter Norway
Fastesdatter Norway
Fastesdotter Old Swedish Sweden

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Faste
Genitive: Fastes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Faste
Genitive: Fastes

Further Information

Earliest Documented 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[6]
0 13 0 0 0 13
Denmark Denmark[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
9
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
1 0 0
n.a.
1
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Faste.


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/