Alar 1

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Multiple variants of this name exist:
For the Low German name see Alar 2
For the Estonian name see Alar 3

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish form of Alarr

Related Names

See Alarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Alarsonar (genitive) Old Swedish
Alarssyni (dative) Old Swedish

Grammar

Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Alar
Genitive: Alars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Alar
Genitive: Alarin
Partitive: Alaria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Alar
Genitive: Alars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Alar
Genitive: Alars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 38 people were named Alar 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 58 %) [2]

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&
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
466 0 0
n.a.
466
Sweden Sweden[5]
27 43 0 0 27 43
Denmark Denmark[6]
3
n.a.
1
n.a.
2
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
10
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Alar.


References

  1. Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. Assar Janzén: Personnamn (1947)
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/