Hagar

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of the Hebrew name הָגָר (Hagar) meaning 'flight' ^[1]

Related Names

Agar	♀
Hagar	♀

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

17 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1856 ^[1]

Bible

Hagar was an Egyptian handmaiden of Sara, the first wife of Abraham. When Sara did not become pregnant, Abraham took Hagar to be his second wife. She gave birth to a son named Ismael, the traditional ancestor of the Arabs.

Namesakes

Hagar Olsson (16 September 1893 - 21 February 1978), Finnish writer

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		122	261	4	9
Denmark[3]		14	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		0	13	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	394	n.a	6
#: 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 Hagar.

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi