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Fredrik
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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic form of Frederik [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Frederik
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Fredrikinpoika |
|
| Fredriksen |
|
| Fredrikson |
|
| Fredrikssen |
|
| Fredriksson |
|
| Fredrikssøn |
|
| Fredriksøn |
|
Female
| Fredrikdatter |
|
| Fredrikintytär |
|
| Fredriksdatter |
|
| Fredriksdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fredrik |
| Genitive: | Fredriks |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fredrik |
| Genitive: | Fredrikin |
| Partitive: | Fredrikiä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fredrik |
| Genitive: | Fredriks |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Fredrik |
| Genitive: | Fredriks |
Name Days
|
|
14 November |
|
|
18 July |
|
|
18 July |
Further Information
Pronunciation
- Swedish: [ˈfreːdrɪk]
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Sweden:
- Norrbotten (19th century) see map [9]
- Uppland (19th century) see map [9]
- Västmanland (19th century) see map [9]
- Dalsland (19th century) see map [9]
- Södermanland (19th century) see map [9]
- Gotland [8]
- Östsverige [8]
Namesakes
- Fredrik I, (17 April 1676 – 25 March 1751), prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and King of Sweden from 1720 until his death and (as Frederick I) also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730
- Adolf Fredrik (14 May 1710 – 12 February 1771), King of Sweden from 1751 until his death
- Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter (11 April 1833 - 9 March 1910), Prime Minister of Sweden and Norway (1900-1902)
- Fredrik Bajer (21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922), Danish writer, teacher, pacifist politician and Nobel laureate
(Peace, 1908) - John Fredrik Reinfeldt (born 4 August 1965), Prime Minister of Sweden 2006-2014
- Fredrik Skavlan (born 2 September 1966), Norwegian journalist, cartoonist and TV personality
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 42609 people were named Fredrik (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [8]
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[10] |
  |
51758 | 96492 | 3 | 11 | 51755 | 96481 |
| Finland[11] |
 |
n.a. |
12496 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
12496 |
| Denmark[12] |
 |
434 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
434 | n.a. |
 Iceland[13] |
  |
3 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[14] |
|
14546 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
14546 | n.a. |
 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Fredrik (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables