Elmer

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Elmar [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Finnish variant form of Helmer [7]

Related Names

Elmer
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elmersson Iceland

Female

Elmersdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elmer
Genitive: Elmers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elmer
Genitive: Elmerin
Partitive: Elmeriä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Elmer
Accusative: Elmer
Dative: Elmer
Genitive: Elmers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elmer
Genitive: Elmers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elmer
Genitive: Elmers

Name Days

Finland Finland

3 January

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

3 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Elmer Rafael Diktonius (20 January 1896 – 23 September 1961), Finnish poet and composer

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[8]
1255 1937 2 3 1253 1934
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
1506 0 0
n.a.
1506
Denmark Denmark[10]
436
n.a.
0
n.a.
436
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
134
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
134
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 Elmer (m) Sources: [8][10][13][9]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no