Hjalmar

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Hjalmarr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Hjalmarr

Name Days

Norway

16 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 November

Sweden

16 January

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Hjalmar
Accusative:	Hjalmar
Dative:	Hjalmari
Genitive:	Hjalmars

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Hjalmar
Accusative:	Hjalmar
Dative:	Hjálmari
Genitive:	Hjálmars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1781 ^[2]

Namesakes

Carl Gustaf Hjalmar Mörner (7 May 1794 - 15 September 1837), Swedish artist

Karl Hjalmar Branting, 23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925, Swedish politician, first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden and Nobel laureate (Peace, 1921)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	0	1741	8376
Norway[4]		0	0	341	587
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	201	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	2	n.a	4222
#: 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^[3][5][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi