Verner

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Werner ^[1]

Related Names

See Warinheri

Name Days

Norway

17 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

17 August

Sweden

17 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1279 ^[1]

Namesakes

Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam, 6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940, Swedish poet, novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1916)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		0	n.a.	3658	n.a
Sweden[3]		0	0	472	6359
Norway[4]		0	0	101	138
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	6486
#: 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 Verner.

Sources: ^{[3] [2] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi