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Mar
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Usage
Old Danish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Danish form of Marr [1] [2]
Related Names
See Marr
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Mararson |
|
| Marsson |
|
Female
| Marardóttir |
|
| Marsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Mar |
| Accusative: | Mar |
| Dative: | Mar |
| Genitive: | Marar / Mars |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Trivia
- Mar is also used as an Icelandic horse name
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
 Sweden[4] |
  |
26 | 153 | 19 | 91 | 7 | 62 |
| Greenland[5] |
  |
0 | 203 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Iceland[6] |
|
0 | 198 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Finland[7] |
 |
n.a. |
80 | n.a. |
74 | n.a. |
6 |
 Denmark[8] |
|
9 | n.a. |
7 | n.a. |
2 | n.a. |
 Norway[9] |
|
22 | n.a. |
12 | n.a. |
10 | n.a. |
| #: 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Mar.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no