Alvar

From Nordic Names wiki - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish and modern form of Alfarr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Swedish translation of the German name Ernst (see Ernust) ^[3], Swedish allvar = 'seriousness'

3) Norwegian dialectal variant form of Hallvard (see Hallvarðr) ^[2]

Related Names

Allvar	♂
Alvar	♂
Alvara	♀

See also Alva

Name Days

Finland

24 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

24 September

Sweden

21 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1822 ^[3]
Norway: 1865 ^[2]

Namesakes

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3rd February, 1898 – 11th May, 1976), Finnish architect and designer

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	1	1265	6878
Norway[5]		0	0	57	85
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	16	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	6015
#: 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^[4][6][5][7]:

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi