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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 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Related Names
See Gunnarr
Male
Gunnarsen
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Gunnarson
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Gunnarssen
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Gunnarsson
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Gunnarssøn
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Gunnarsøn
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Female
Gunnardatter
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Gunnardotter
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Gunnarsdatter
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Gunnarsdotter
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Gunnarsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Gunnar
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Genitive: |
Gunnars
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Gunnar
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Accusative: |
Gunnar
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Dative: |
Gunnari
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Genitive: |
Gunnars
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Gunnar
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Genitive: |
Gunnarin
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Partitive: |
Gunnaria
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Gunnar
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Accusative: |
Gunnar
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Dative: |
Gunnari
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Genitive: |
Gunnars
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Gunnar
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Genitive: |
Gunnars
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Gunnar
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Genitive: |
Gunnars
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Name Days
Norway
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9 January
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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8 January
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Sweden
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9 January
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Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
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) [16]
Trivia
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[17] |
|
14850 |
101611 |
0 |
9 |
14850 |
101602 |
Finland[18] |
|
n.a. |
13350 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
13350 |
Iceland[19] |
|
3130 |
4048 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[20] |
|
3588 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
3588 |
n.a. |
Greenland[21] |
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20 |
46 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[22] |
|
12042 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
12042 |
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
Sources: [17][20][22][18]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [23]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Gunnar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Kristian Hald: Personnavne i Danmark - Oldtiden (1971)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables