Ægir

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse ægir = 'sea, ocean' ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Egir	♂
Ägir	♂
Ægir	♂

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ægir
Accusative:	Ægi
Dative:	Ægi
Genitive:	Ægis

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ægir
Accusative:	Ægir
Dative:	Ægi
Genitive:	Ægis

Further Information

Mythology

Ægir is the god of the sea. He and his wife Rán had nine daughters ("billow maidens"), each name reflecting a different characteristic of ocean waves:

• Bára (or Drǫfn) - Foam Fleck, Comber
• Blóðughadda - Bloody Hair (a reference to red sea foam)
• Bylgja - Billow
• Dúfa - Pitching Wave
• Hefring - Rising Wave
• Himinglæva - Transparent Wave
• Hrǫnn - Welling Wave
• Kolga - Cool Wave
• Unnr (or Uðr) - Frothing Wave

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		0	0	5	9
Sweden[4]		0	0	3	12
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	3	n.a
Finland[6]		0	0	0	0
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ægir.

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [3] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi