Ansgar

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old High German name

Combination of AS and GEIR [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Ansgar
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Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Ansgard
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Ansgarius
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Finish Swedish
Anskar
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Anskari
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Asgar
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Karjus
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Finish

See also Anska, Anssi, Kari

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ansgarsson Faroe Islands

Female

Ansgarsdóttir Faroe Islands

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ansgar
Genitive: Ansgars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ansgar
Accusative: Ansgar
Dative: Ansgari
Genitive: Ansgars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ansgar
Genitive: Ansgarin
Partitive: Ansgaria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ansgar
Genitive: Ansgars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ansgar
Genitive: Ansgars

Name Days

Norway Norway

3 February

Sweden Sweden

4 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

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

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&
Sweden Sweden[11]
64 292 0 0 64 292
Denmark Denmark[12]
26
n.a.
0
n.a.
26
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
22 0 0
n.a.
22
Iceland Iceland[14]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
293
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
293
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
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 Ansgar.


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  7. Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  8. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/