Oddvar

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Faroese
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Modern form of Uddvarr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

2) Variant form of Oddvard ^[1]

Related Names

Oddvar	♂

Name Day

Norway

15 November

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Oddvar
Accusative:	Oddvar
Dative:	Oddvari
Genitive:	Oddvars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Oddvar
Accusative:	Oddvar
Dative:	Oddvari
Genitive:	Oddvars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 1887 ^[1] Sweden: 20th century ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		0	0	3770	5475
Sweden[6]		0	0	77	197
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	13	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	3	n.a	3
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [5] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi