Rickard
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English
Etymology
From a medieval variant of Richard.
Proper noun
Rickard
- A surname transferred from the given name.
Swedish
Etymology
Cognate with English Richard. First recorded in Sweden as Rikard in the 1160s.
Proper noun
Rickard c (genitive Rickards)
- a male given name
Related terms
- (surnames) Rickardsson
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 22 341 males with the given name Rickard (compared to 10 124 named Rikard and 17 105 named Richard) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.