Billingr

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse billingr = 'twin' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Billing	♂
Billingr	♂
BillingR	♂

Further Information

Mythology

Billingr is the name of a dwarf in the Vǫluspá ^[4]

Billingr is the name of a giant in the Hávamál. He is the father of a girl whom Óðinn wants to seduce

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		0	0	0	0
Norway[7]		0	0	0	0
Finland[8]		0	0	0	0
#: 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 Billingr.

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
2. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
3. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
4. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi