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Usage
Old Norse
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Walter [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Waltheri
Male
Valtersson
|
|
Female
Valtersdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Valter
|
Genitive: |
Valters
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Valter
|
Genitive: |
Valterin
|
Partitive: |
Valteria
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Valter
|
Accusative: |
Valter
|
Dative: |
Valter
|
Genitive: |
Valters
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Valter
|
Genitive: |
Valters
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Valter
|
Genitive: |
Valters
|
Name Days
Norway
|
12 October
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
29 January
|
Sweden
|
17 August
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 19351 people were named Valter (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[9] |
|
3895 |
10533 |
0 |
2 |
3895 |
10531 |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
5987 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
5987 |
Denmark[11] |
|
154 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
154 |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
|
1 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
147 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
147 |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
|
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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: [9][11][13][10]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables