Robert

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Faroese
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Hrōdebert

Related Names

See Hrōdebert

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Robertinpoika
Robertsen
Robertson
Robertssen
Robertsson
Robertssøn
Robertsøn

Female

Robertdatter
Robertintytär
Robertsdatter
Robertsdotter
Robertsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Robert
Genitive:	Roberts

- Faroese
Nominative:	Robert
Accusative:	Robert
Dative:	Roberti
Genitive:	Roberts

- Finnish
Nominative:	Robert
Genitive:	Robertin
Partitive:	Robertia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Robert
Accusative:	Robert
Dative:	Robert / Roberti
Genitive:	Roberts

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Robert
Genitive:	Roberts

- Swedish
Nominative:	Robert
Genitive:	Roberts

Name Days

Denmark

7 September

Faroe Islands

7 September

Finland

7 June

Norway

7 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 June

Sweden

7 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 12th century
• Sweden: 1219
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 30 January 2008

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1900-1919 and 1995-
• Sweden: 1970-1989
• Norway: 1970-1990

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Agder and further north along the coast after the Protestant Reformation
• Denmark:
  • København
• Sweden:
  • Norrbotten (19th century) see map
  • Västerbotten (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Gästrikland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Oscar Robert Themptander (14 February 1844 - 30 January 1897), Prime Minister of Sweden and Norway (1884-1888)
• Robert Karl Oskar Broberg (pseudonyms "Zero" and "Robban", 2 July 1940 – 21 July 2015), Swedish singer, composer and artist
• Carl Robert Olof Gustafsson (born 20 December 1964), Swedish comedian

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		27200	56520	0	22	27200	56498
Finland		n.a.	14078	0	0	n.a.	14078
Denmark		4635	n.a.	0	n.a.	4635	n.a.
Iceland		305	446	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		36	95	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		8300	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	8300	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 Robert (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.