Nordic Names

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Leifr

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name and byname

Old Norse leifr = 'heir', 'descendant' (see also -r) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Leaifa ♂
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 Sami
Leffe ♂
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 Swedish
Leif ♂
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Leiff ♂
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 Danish
Leifi ♂
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 Old Norse
Leifr ♂
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 Old Norse
Leifur ♂
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 Icelandic
Leiv ♂
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 Norwegian Swedish
Leive ♂
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 Norwegian
Leivur ♂
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 Faroese
Lejf ♂
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 Danish Swedish
Lejff ♂
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 Danish
Lev ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Læifi ♂
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 Old Norse

See also Lewe

For female forms see Leifa

Combinations

For combinations see LEIF (name element)

Further Information

Namesakes

Leifr Eiríksson, 970-1020, son of Eiríkr Þorvaldsson (Eiríkr inn rauði). Icelandic explorer and first European going to Vínland (North America) in 1002 or 1003

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&
Iceland Iceland[4]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[5]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[9]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Leifr.


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  3. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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