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Rasmus

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Erasmus [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Rasme ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian
Rasmus ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Rassmus ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Rassmuss ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Raßmuß ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Razmus ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Swedish
Razmuz ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

See also Ilâmût (Greenlandic), Ras, Râsemûse (Greenlandic), Rásmos (Sami), Rasofiel, Rástoš (Sami)

For female forms see Rasmine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rasmuksenpoika Finland
Rasmusarson Faroe Islands Iceland
Rasmusen Denmark Norway
Rasmussen Denmark Norway
Rasmuson Norway Sweden
Rasmusson Norway Sweden
Rasmussøn Norway
Rasmusøn Norway

Female

Rasmuksentytär Finland
Rasmusardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland
Rasmusdatter Denmark Norway
Rasmusdotter Norway Sweden

Combinations

For combinations see RAS (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rasmus
Genitive: Rasmus'
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Rasmus
Accusative: Rasmus
Dative: Rasmusi
Genitive: Rasmusar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rasmus
Genitive: Rasmuksen
Partitive: Rasmusta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rasmus
Accusative: Rasmus
Dative: Rasmusi
Genitive: Rasmusar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rasmus
Genitive: Rasmus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rasmus
Genitive: Rasmus'

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

3 June

Finland Finland

24 October

Norway Norway

3 June

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

24 October

Sweden Sweden

26 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Norway: In coastal areas of Norway, the churning sea is sometimes called "Rasmus" [11]
  • Sweden: Rasmus på luffen (English title: Rasmus and the Vagabond), book written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1956)
  • Sweden: In January 1973, 251 people were named Rasmus (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [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&
Denmark Denmark[12]
30396
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 30396
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[13]
16181 18988 4 10 16177 18978
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
 9327 0 0
n.a.
 9327
Greenland Greenland[15]
140 388
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
5 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
1666
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 1666
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 Rasmus (m) Sources: [13][12][17][14]

Top List Ranking

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

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Rasmus (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  10. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  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
  18. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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