Ottar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of Óttarr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See *Ohtherr

Name Day

Norway

4 November

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ottar
Accusative:	Ottar
Dative:	Ottari
Genitive:	Ottars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1829 (in modern times) ^[4]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Jämtland Bohuslän ^[4]

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	1227	2014
Sweden[6]		0	0	39	139
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	21	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	3	n.a	8
#: 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. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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