Fridtjof

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Friðþjófr [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Friðþjófr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fridtjofsen Denmark Norway
Fridtjofson Norway

Female

Fridtjofsdatter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Fridtjof
Genitive: Fridtjofs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Fridtjof
Genitive: Fridtjofs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Fridtjof
Genitive: Fridtjofs

Name Day

Norway Norway

10 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen, 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930, Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Peace, 1922)

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Fridtjof (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [7]

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&
Denmark Denmark[8]
39
n.a.
0
n.a.
39
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
9 26 0 0 9 26
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
4 0 0
n.a.
4
Norway Norway[11]
417
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
417
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Fridtjof (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  6. Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1900 https://riksarkivet.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/