Geir

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Icelandic
Swedish
Danish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Geirr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See GæiRR

Name Day

Norway

30 May

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Geir
Accusative:	Geir
Dative:	Geiri
Genitive:	Geirs

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Geir
Accusative:	Geir
Dative:	Geir
Genitive:	Geirs

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		0	0	10721	22647
Sweden[6]		0	0	199	314
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	79	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	3	n.a	44
#: 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^[6][7][5][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Evan Bogan: Navnebogen (2005)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi