Ansgar

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old High German name

Combination of AS and GEIR [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

     
Ansgar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Ansgard ♂ Norwegian
Ansgarius ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish Swedish
Anska ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Anskar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Anskari ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Anski ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Ansku ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Anssi ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Asgar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish
Karjus ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish

Name Days

Norway Norway

3 February

Sweden Sweden

4 February

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ansgar
Accusative: Ansgar
Dative: Ansgari
Genitive: Ansgars

Further Information

Cognates

Norse: ÁsgæiRR

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1830 [2]

Namesakes

Ansgar, German Bishop, responsible for christianizing parts of Scandinavia (801 - 865)

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Norway Norway[4] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m3.png 0 0 232 379
Sweden Sweden[5] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m3.png 0 0 54 309
Denmark Denmark[6] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m2.png 0 n.a. 39 n.a
Finland Finland[7] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m2.png n.a. 4 n.a 9
  #: 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 Ansgar.

Sources: [5] [6] [4] [7]

References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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