Eggert

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Low German form of Eckehard [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Eckehard

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Eggertsen Denmark
Eggertsson Iceland

Female

Eggertsdatter Denmark
Eggertsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eggert
Genitive: Eggerts
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Eggert
Accusative: Eggert
Dative: Eggerti
Genitive: Eggerts
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eggert
Genitive: Eggerts
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eggert
Genitive: Eggerts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 66 people were named Eggert (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %) [9]

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[10]
292 378
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[11]
63
n.a.
0
n.a.
63
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
9 38 0 0 9 38
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
3 0 0
n.a.
3
Norway Norway[14]
6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
6
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
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 Eggert.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/