Orvar

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Ǫrvar [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Ǫrvar

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Orvarsson Iceland

Female

Orvarsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Orvar
Genitive: Orvarin
Partitive: Orvaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Orvar
Accusative: Orvar
Dative: Orvari
Genitive: Orvars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Orvar
Genitive: Orvars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Orvar
Genitive: Orvars

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 July

Sweden 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

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[8]
211 766 0 0 211 766
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
30 0 0
n.a.
30
Iceland Iceland[10]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[11]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
16
n.a.
Greenland 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. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/