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Edgar

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English younger form of Eadgar [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Eadgar

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Edgarsson Iceland

Female

Edgarsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Edgar
Genitive: Edgars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edgar
Genitive: Edgarin
Partitive: Edgaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Edgar
Accusative: Edgar
Dative: Edgari
Genitive: Edgars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edgar
Genitive: Edgars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edgar
Genitive: Edgars

Name Days

Norway Norway

16 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

29 November

Sweden Sweden

31 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1,787 people were named Edgar (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [8]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[9]
892 1886 0 2 892 1884
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 891 0 0
n.a.
 891
Denmark Denmark[11]
208
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 208
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
20 26
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
964
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 964
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Edgar (m) Sources: [9][11][14][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Edgar (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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