Yngvar

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Yngvarr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Ingvarr

Name Days

Faroe Islands

25 September

Norway

25 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

23 November

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Yngvar
Accusative:	Yngvar
Dative:	Yngvari
Genitive:	Yngvars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Yngvar
Accusative:	Yngvar
Dative:	Yngvari
Genitive:	Yngvars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1828 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		0	0	741	953
Sweden[6]		0	0	21	84
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	5	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	1	n.a	25
#: 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^[5]:

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [5] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi