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]}

Related Names

See Gunnarr

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

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Female ♀	Male ♂	Commonness
Sweden[4] #	1	20634
Norway[5] #	0	10276
Denmark[6] #	0	5638
Iceland[7] #		3238
Faroe Islands[8] #	0	120
Finland[9] &	4	12799
#: 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^[4][6][5][9]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
8. ↑ Hagstova Føroya, Statistics Faroe Islands, http://www.hagstova.fo/
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi