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Male Name
Usage
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Ǫrvar [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Ǫrvar
Male
Orvarsson
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Female
Orvarsdóttir
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Grammar
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Orvar
|
Genitive: |
Orvarin
|
Partitive: |
Orvaria
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Orvar
|
Accusative: |
Orvar
|
Dative: |
Orvari
|
Genitive: |
Orvars
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Orvar
|
Genitive: |
Orvars
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Orvar
|
Genitive: |
Orvars
|
Name Days
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
6 July
|
Sweden
|
18 September
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Ernst Orvar Bergmark (16 November 1930 – 10 May 2004) Swedish football defender and manager
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 1488 people were named Orvar (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [7]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
211 |
766 |
0 |
0 |
211 |
766 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
30 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
30 |
Iceland[10] |
|
0 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[11] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
16 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
16 |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
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 Orvar.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/