Magnar

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic name

New combination of MAGN and HER ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Magnar	♂
Magner	♂

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Magnar
Accusative:	Magnar
Dative:	Magnari
Genitive:	Magnars

Name Day

Norway

29 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 1878 ^[3]
Sweden: 1886 ^[2]

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	1834	2754
Sweden[5]		0	0	36	79
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	3	n.a	9
#: 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. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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