Gunnar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish, Old Danish and younger form of Gunnarr

Related Names

See Gunnarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gunnarsen
Gunnarson
Gunnarssen
Gunnarsson
Gunnarssøn
Gunnarsøn

Female

Gunnardatter
Gunnardotter
Gunnarsdatter
Gunnarsdotter
Gunnarsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Gunnar
Genitive:	Gunnars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Gunnar
Accusative:	Gunnar
Dative:	Gunnari
Genitive:	Gunnars

- Finnish
Nominative:	Gunnar
Genitive:	Gunnarin
Partitive:	Gunnaria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Gunnar
Accusative:	Gunnar
Dative:	Gunnari
Genitive:	Gunnars

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Gunnar
Genitive:	Gunnars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Gunnar
Genitive:	Gunnars

Name Days

Norway

9 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

8 January

Sweden

9 January

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1910-1929
• Norway: 1920-1925

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Telemark (after the Protestant Reformation - ca. 1900)
  • Setesdal (after the Protestant Reformation - ca. 1900)
• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Lolland-Falster
• Sweden:
  • Västergötland (20th century)
  • Halland (20th century)
  • Jämtland (19th century) see map
  • Gotland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Gunnar Wennerberg (2 October 1817 – 24 August 1901), Swedish poet, composer and politician
• Gunnar Knudsen (né Aanon Gunerius Knudsen, 19 September 1848 - 1 December 1928), former Prime Minister of Norway (1908-1910 + 1913-1920)
• Gunnar Gunnarsson (18 May 1889 – 21 November 1975), Icelandic author
• Gunnar Jørgensen (18 October 1896 - 8 March 1963), Danish author ("Flemming" books) and founder of a school
• Karl Gunnar Myrdal, 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987, Swedish economist, sociologist, politician and Nobel laureate (Economics, 1974)
• Gunnar "Nu" Valdemar Hansen (20 October 1905 - 5 January 1993), Danish sports journalist
• Gunnar Ernst Algot Sandgren (27 June 1929 - 4 November 2016), Swedish novelist and playwright

Placenames

• Gunderslev - 1322 Gunnærsløf (Sjælland, Denmark)

Trivia

• Gunnar is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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		15322	103196	0	6	15322	103190
Norway		12335	n.a.	0	n.a.	12335	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	13282	0	0	n.a.	13282
Iceland		3130	4048	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		3773	n.a.	0	n.a.	3773	n.a.
Greenland		20	46	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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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