Ivar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Ívarr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Ívarr

Name Days

Norway

31 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 August

Sweden

31 January

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Skåne, Dalarna, Norrland ^[1]

Namesakes

Ivar Lykke, former Prime Minister of Norway (1926-1928)

Ivar Giæver, * 5 April 1929, Norwegian physicist and Nobel laureate (Physics, 1973)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		0	0	6389	9882
Sweden[5]		0	0	2996	19788
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	548	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	2771
#: 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][6][4][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [4] [7]}

References

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