Assar

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Ansvar ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See *AndswaruR

Name Day

Sweden

16 December

Further Information

Assar sometimes used to be "Latinised" as Ahasverus ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Austlandet (until the 16th century), Rogaland (after the Protestant Reformation) ^[2]

Namesakes

Assar Thorvald Nathanael Gabrielsson (1891 - 1962), Swedish industrialist and co-founder of Volvo.

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	0	661	2405
Norway[4]		0	0	7	9
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	129
#: 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^[3][5][4][6]:

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

References

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