Holger

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Sami

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish variant form and modern form of Holmger ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Related Names

See HolmgæiRR

Name Days

Norway

30 March

Sami

2 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 August

Sweden

30 March

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Skåne ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	3989	n.a
Sweden[7]		0	0	1773	9681
Norway[8]		0	0	218	349
Finland[9]		n.a.	1	n.a	3337
#: 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^[7][6][8][9]:

Sources: ^{[7] [6] [8] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
5. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi