Oddvar

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Uddvarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Variant form of Oddvard [1]

Related Names

Oddvar
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Danish Faroese Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Oddwar
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Norwegian
Odvar
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Norwegian Swedish
Odwar
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Norwegian

For female forms see Odvara, Oddvarda

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Oddvarsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Oddvarsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Oddvar
Genitive: Oddvars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Oddvar
Accusative: Oddvar
Dative: Oddvari
Genitive: Oddvars
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Oddvar
Accusative: Oddvar
Dative: Oddvari
Genitive: Oddvars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oddvar
Genitive: Oddvars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oddvar
Genitive: Oddvars

Name Day

Norway Norway

15 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 114 people were named Oddvar (percentage of first or only given name: 33 %) [7]
  • Oddvar is an IKEA product name (stool) [8]

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[9]
49 166 0 0 49 166
Denmark Denmark[10]
6
n.a.
0
n.a.
6
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
8 0 0
n.a.
8
Iceland Iceland[12]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
4313
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
4313
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Oddvar (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/