Ingar m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Ingar f for the female version.

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Inggard [1]

2) New variant form of Ingvar (see Ingvarr) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Ingar
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ingjar
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian

For female forms see Ingara

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ingar
Genitive: Ingarin
Partitive: Ingaria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ingar
Genitive: Ingars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ingar
Genitive: Ingars

Name Day

Norway Norway

22 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 75 people were named Ingar m (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [5]

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[6]
120 422 105 346 15 76
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
30
n.a.
4
n.a.
26
Denmark Denmark[8]
3
n.a.
1
n.a.
2
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
1720
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
1720
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ingar (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Ingar (f)

Statistics as male name


Norwegian historic statistics trend[9]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Ingar (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/