Seger

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Swedish variant form of Sigurd (see *Sigvǫrðr) [1]

2) Swedish seger = 'victory' (see SIG) [1]

3) Swedish younger form of Sigar (see Sigarr) [1]

Related Names

Seger
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Swedish Swedish

Grammar

Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Seger
Genitive: Segers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden:
    • 1657 [1] (probably earlier: an ancestor of one of our visitors died in 1611 in Västernorrland)

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 19 people were named Seger (percentage of first or only given name: 26 %) [2]

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[3]
3 30 0 6 3 24
Denmark Denmark[4]
2
n.a.
0
n.a.
2
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
2 0 0
n.a.
2
Norway Norway[6]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Seger.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/