Gissur

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Male Name

Usage

Icelandic
Faroese
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Icelandic and Faroese younger form of Gizurr

Related Names

See Gizurr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gissurarson
Gissursson

Female

Gissurardóttir
Gissursdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Gissur
Genitive:	Gissurs

- Faroese
Nominative:	Gissur
Accusative:	Gissur
Dative:	Gissuri
Genitive:	Gissurs

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Gissur
Accusative:	Gissur
Dative:	Gissuri
Genitive:	Gissurar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Gissur
Genitive:	Gissurs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Gissur
Genitive:	Gissurs

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1865 (Hurdal, Akershus)

Trivia

• Gissur is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		63	68	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		2	2	0	0	2	2
Denmark		1	n.a.	0	n.a.	1	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland		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 Gissur.