Ludvig

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Ludwig

Related Names

See Hluodwic

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ludviginpoika
Ludvigsen
Ludvigson
Ludvigssen
Ludvigsson
Ludvigssøn
Ludvigsøn

Female

Ludvigdatter
Ludvigintytär
Ludvigsdatter
Ludvigsdotter
Ludvigsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ludvig
Genitive:	Ludvigs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Ludvig
Genitive:	Ludvigin
Partitive:	Ludvigia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ludvig
Accusative:	Ludvig
Dative:	Ludvig
Genitive:	Ludvigs

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ludvig
Genitive:	Ludvigs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ludvig
Genitive:	Ludvigs

Name Days

Denmark

25 August

Norway

25 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 October

Sweden

2 October

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 14th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1885-1899
  • 1980- {{ref_bry}
• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • 1995-
• Norway:
  • early 20th century
  • 2000-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Vestlandet (after the Protestant Reformation)
• Denmark: Bornholm
• Sweden: Halland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Ludvig Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754), Dano-Norwegian writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright

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		11212	17190	6	9	11206	17181
Denmark		1782	n.a.	0	n.a.	1782	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1781	0	0	n.a.	1781
Greenland		128	536	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		6	8	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		2556	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	2556	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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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ludvig (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.