Peder

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Pedr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

2) Swedish younger form of Pädher [3] [7]

Related Names

See Pedr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Pedersen Denmark Norway
Pederson Sweden
Pederssen Norway
Pedersson Old Swedish Sweden
Pederssøn Norway
Pederßøn (17th century) Denmark

Female

Pedersdatter Denmark Norway
Pedersdotter Old Swedish Norway Sweden
Pederss dotter Old Swedish
Pederszdotther Old Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Peder
Genitive: Peders
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Peder
Genitive: Pederin
Partitive: Pederiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Peder
Genitive: Peders
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Peder
Genitive: Peders

Name Day

Norway Norway

1 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 4,445 people were named Peder (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [11]

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[13]
2892 5990 0 0 2892 5990
Denmark Denmark[14]
4719
n.a.
0
n.a.
4719
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
178 0 0
n.a.
178
Greenland Greenland[16]
10 25
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
3872
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
3872
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 Peder (m) Sources: [13][14][17][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Peder (m) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Peder (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. Niels Cl. Hansen: Bøndernavnene i Ribe Amt i 16. Århundrede (1933)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  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. 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. details see Name Statistic tables