Einar

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and younger form of Æinarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Æinarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Einarsen Norway
Einarson Norway Sweden
Einarsson Faroe Islands Iceland Norway Sweden

Female

Einarsdatter Norway
Einarsdotter Sweden
Einarsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Einar
Genitive: Einars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Einar
Accusative: Einar
Dative: Einari
Genitive: Einars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Einar
Genitive: Einarin
Partitive: Einaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Einar
Accusative: Einar
Dative: Einari
Genitive: Einars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Einar
Genitive: Einars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Einar
Genitive: Einars

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

26 September

Norway Norway

26 September

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

17 November

Sweden Sweden

26 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 37942 people were named Einar (percentage of first or only given name: 20 %) [14]

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[16]
2295 14819 0 3 2295 14816
Finland Finland[17]
n.a.
10905 0 0
n.a.
10905
Iceland Iceland[18]
2443 2904
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[19]
394
n.a.
0
n.a.
394
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[20]
8 18
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[21]
10569
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
10569
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 Einar (m) Sources: [16][19][21][17]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Einar (m) Sources: [22]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Einar (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Einar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Einar (m)


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  6. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  16. 16.0 16.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  18. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  19. 19.0 19.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  20. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  21. 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  22. details see Name Statistic tables