Joar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and modern form of Jóarr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Jóarr

Name Days

Norway

24 January

Sweden

31 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1871 (in modern times) ^[2]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Östergötland ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		0	0	1048	1352
Sweden[4]		1	1	755	1002
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	5	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	5	n.a	55
#: 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][5][3][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

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

References

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