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Geir

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Geirr [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See *Gaizaz

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Geirsson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden

Female

Geirsdotter Sweden
Geirsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Geir
Genitive: Geirs
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Geir
Accusative: Geir
Dative: Geiri
Genitive: Geirs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Geir
Genitive: Geirin
Partitive: Geiriä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Geir
Accusative: Geir
Dative: Geir
Genitive: Geirs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Geir
Genitive: Geirs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Geir
Genitive: Geirs

Name Day

Norway Norway

30 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 41 people were named Geir (percentage of first or only given name: 78 %) [7]

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&
Iceland Iceland[8]
257 1055
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
198 314 0 0 198 314
Denmark Denmark[10]
78
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 78
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 65 0 0
n.a.
 65
Greenland Greenland[12]
4 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
21806
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 21806
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 Geir (m) Sources: [9][10][13][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Geir (m) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Geir (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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