Signar

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic name

1) Male form of Signe (see Signý) ^[1]

2) Old Norse signaðr = 'blessed' ^[2]

3) New combination of SIGN and HER ^[3]

Related Names

Signar	♂
Signer	♂

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Signar
Accusative:	Signar
Dative:	Signari
Genitive:	Signars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1859 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	0	86	352
Norway[5]		0	0	31	64
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	10	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	4	n.a	24
#: 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 Signar.

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi