Gunnar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish, Old Danish and modern form of Gunnarr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See *Gunþa-harjaR

Name Days

Norway

9 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

8 January

Sweden

9 January

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Gunnar
Accusative:	Gunnar
Dative:	Gunnari
Genitive:	Gunnars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Gunnar
Accusative:	Gunnar
Dative:	Gunnari
Genitive:	Gunnars

Further Information

Namesakes

Gunnar Wennerberg (2nd October, 1817 – 24th August, 1901), Swedish poet, composer and politician

Gunnar Knudsen (born Aanon Gunerius Knudsen), former Prime Minister of Norway (1908-1910 + 1913-1920)

Karl Gunnar Myrdal, 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987, Swedish economist, sociologist, politician and Nobel laureate (Economics, 1974)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		1	3	20009	116897
Norway[6]		0	0	10076	15047
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	5419	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	2	n.a	12879
#: 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^[5][7][6][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi