Baltasar

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Βαλτασαρ (Baltasar), which is the Greek form of the Hebrew name לְשַׁאצַּר (Belshatzzar) which derives from Akkadian Bel-scharra-usur[1]/Bēl-ŝarra-uzur[2] = 'may (the god) Bel/Baal protect the king' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

     
Balser ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish
Baltasar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Faroese Icelandic Swedish
Baltazar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Balthasar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Balthazar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Baltsar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Baltser ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian Swedish
Baltzar ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Old Swedish Swedish
Baltzer ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian Swedish
Balzer ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish

Name Day

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

19 October

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Baltasar
Accusative: Baltasar
Dative: Baltasari
Genitive: Baltasars
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Baltasar
Accusative: Baltasar
Dative: Baltasar
Genitive: Baltasars

Further Information

Bible

One of the Three Wise Men or Magi, who brought gifts to the infant Jesus. See also Kaspar and Melchior.

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&
Sweden Sweden[6] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m2.png 0 0 12 39
Denmark Denmark[7] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m1.png 0 n.a. 3 n.a
Norway Norway[8] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m1.png 0 0 0 4
Finland Finland[9] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 2 n.a 2
  #: 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 Baltasar.

Sources: [6] [7] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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