Ferdinand

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

West Gothic name

1) Younger form of the Germanic name Fridunand [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Combination of FAR and NAND [1]

Related Names

Ferd
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ferdi Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ferdin
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ferdinan
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ferdinand
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Ferdínand
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Icelandic
Ferdinando
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ferdinant
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Finish Norwegian Swedish
Fernand
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Fernando
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Fredinand Finish Swedish

See also Ferrant, Ferry, Fertram, Hernan, Nando, Nándor, Nante, Vêrtinât, Vertti

For female forms see Ferdina, Ferdinanda, Fernandina

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ferdinandsen Denmark Norway
Ferdinandson Norway Sweden
Ferdinandssen Norway
Ferdinandsson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden

Female

Ferdinandsdatter Denmark Norway
Ferdinandsdotter Sweden
Ferdinandsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ferdinand
Genitive: Ferdinands
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ferdinand
Accusative: Ferdinand
Dative: Ferdinandi
Genitive: Ferdinands
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ferdinand
Genitive: Ferdinandin
Partitive: Ferdinandia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ferdinand
Accusative: Ferdinand
Dative: Ferdinand / Ferdinandi
Genitive: Ferdinands
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ferdinand
Genitive: Ferdinands
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ferdinand
Genitive: Ferdinands

Name Days

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

3 April

Sweden Sweden

3 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 8,692 people were named Ferdinand (percentage of first or only given name: 2 %) [10]

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[12]
n.a.
3415 0 0
n.a.
3415
Sweden Sweden[13]
180 2051 0 2 180 2049
Denmark Denmark[14]
213
n.a.
1
n.a.
212
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
37 134
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
6 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
630
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
630
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 Ferdinand (m) Sources: [13][14][17][12]

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no