Reidar

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Hræiðarr [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Hræiðarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Reidarsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Reidarsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Reidar
Genitive: Reidars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Reidar
Accusative: Reidar
Dative: Reidari
Genitive: Reidars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Reidar
Genitive: Reidarin
Partitive: Reidaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Reidar
Accusative: Reidar
Dative: Reidari
Genitive: Reidars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Reidar
Genitive: Reidars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Reidar
Genitive: Reidars

Name Days

Norway Norway

28 July

Sweden Sweden

9 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1563 people were named Reidar (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [7]

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 Sweden[8]
457 1406 0 0 457 1406
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
181 0 0
n.a.
181
Denmark Denmark[10]
62
n.a.
0
n.a.
62
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
5425
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
5425
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Reidar (m) Sources: [8][10][12][9]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Reidar (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/