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Ægir

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse ægir = 'sea', 'ocean' [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Old Norse Ægir = 'sea giant', 'water man' [4]

Both words derive from Ancient Germanic *ahwo = 'water' [4] [5]

Related Names

Aegir ♂
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 Swedish
Egir ♂
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 Norwegian
Eigir ♂
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 Norwegian
Æge ♂
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 Norwegian
Ägir ♂
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 Swedish
Ægir ♂
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 Danish Faroese Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse

See also Agir

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ægisson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Ægisdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ægir
Genitive: Ægirs
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ægir
Accusative: Ægir
Dative: Ægi
Genitive: Ægis
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ægir
Accusative: Ægi
Dative: Ægi
Genitive: Ægis
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ægir
Genitive: Ægirs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norse Mythology

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[7]
259 468
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
2 15 0 0 2 15
Denmark Denmark[9]
7
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 7
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 16
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
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 Ægir.


References

  1. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  5. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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