Eber

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old High German ebur = 'wild boar' 'wild boar helmet' (see also JOR) [1]

Wild Boar
Wild Boar
Image by Richard Bartz,[2]
licensed under Creative Commons

2) Variant form of Eberg [1]

Related Names

Eber
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Ebba, Ebbo, Ebrikke, Everine

Cognates

Combinations

For combinations see JOR (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eber
Genitive: Ebers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eber
Genitive: Eberin
Partitive: Eberiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eber
Genitive: Ebers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eber
Genitive: Ebers

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 186 people were named Eber (percentage of first or only given name: 23 %) [3]

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&
Sweden Sweden[4]
26 123 0 0 26 123
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
20 0 0
n.a.
20
Greenland Greenland[6]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
5
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 Eber.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. Wikimedia Commons: Image by Richard Bartz, source & license
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no