Name Finder
Browse Name List
Random Names
Danish Names
Faroese Names
Finnish Names
Greenlandic Names
Icelandic Names
Norwegian Names
Sami Names
Swedish Names
More Nordic Names
Bibliography
Sander
From Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.
Rate this name:
Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Advertisement:
Origin and Meaning
1) Old Danish form of Sandarr [1]
2) German short form of Alexander [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
| Sander | ♂ |   |
|
| Santer | ♂ |   |
|
| Santeri | ♂ |  |
|
| Zander | ♂ |  |
|
For female forms see Sanda, Sandra
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Sandersen |
|
| Sanderson |
|
| Sanderssen |
|
| Sandersson |
|
| Sanderssøn |
|
| Sandersøn |
|
Female
| Sanderdatter |
|
| Sandersdatter |
|
| Sandersdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sander |
| Genitive: | Sanders |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sander |
| Genitive: | Sanderin |
| Partitive: | Sanderia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sander |
| Genitive: | Sanders |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sander |
| Genitive: | Sanders |
Name Day
|
|
18 March |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Buskerud (Hallingdal) [2]
- Vest-Agder [2]
- Denmark:
- Sweden:
- Halland (19th century) see map [7]
- Sydsverige [6]
- Nordsverige [6]
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 172 people were named Sander (percentage of first or only given name: 20 %) [6]
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
| 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[8] |
|
2115 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2115 | n.a. |
| Sweden[9] |
|
630 | 919 | 2 | 11 | 628 | 908 |
| Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
814 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
814 |
 Greenland[11] |
  |
0 | 13 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[12] |
  |
2 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[13] |
|
9605 | n.a. |
6 | n.a. |
9599 | 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
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Sander (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables