Roar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

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

Related Names

See Hróðarr

Name Day

Norway

4 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1891 (in modern times) ^[3]

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	5919	7245
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	257	n.a
Sweden[6]		0	0	87	188
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [4] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi