Einar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Danish
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and younger form of Æinarr

Related Names

See Æinarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Einarsen
Einarson
Einarsson

Female

Einarsdatter
Einarsdotter
Einarsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Einar
Genitive:	Einars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Einar
Accusative:	Einar
Dative:	Einari
Genitive:	Einars

- Finnish
Nominative:	Einar
Genitive:	Einarin
Partitive:	Einaria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Einar
Accusative:	Einar
Dative:	Einari
Genitive:	Einars

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Einar
Genitive:	Einars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Einar
Genitive:	Einars

Name Days

Faroe Islands

26 September

Norway

26 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

17 November

Sweden

26 September

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1817 (Falkenberg, Halland) (in modern times)
  • 1821 (in modern times)
• Greenland:
  • 1944

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1929
  • 1900-1919
• Norway:
  • 1900-1915

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Møre og Romsdal
  • Trøndelag
• Sweden:
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Medelpad (19th century) see map
  • Västerbotten (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Einar Henry Gerhardsen (10 May 1897 – 19 September 1987), former Prime Minister of Norway (1945-1951 + 1955-1963 + 1963-1965)
• Einar Førde (20 January 1943 – 26 September 2004), Norwegian journalist and politician

Trivia

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

• Einar is also used as an Icelandic horse name
• Einar was name of the week on Nordic Names in week 7-2021

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		2295	14819	0	3	2295	14816
Finland		n.a.	10905	0	0	n.a.	10905
Iceland		2443	2904	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		394	n.a.	0	n.a.	394	n.a.
Greenland		8	18	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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