Ægir

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Male Male Name

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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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. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/