Oscar

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) English younger form of Osgar (see ÁsgæiRR) [1] [2] [3]

2) Irish name

a) Combination of Irish Gaelic os = 'deer' and cara/caraid = 'friend, relative' [2] [4] [5] [6]

b) From an Irish name Oscur of unknown meaning [1]

Related Names

Oscar
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Oskar
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Óskar
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Icelandic
Osquar Swedish
Åskar
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Swedish
Aaskar
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Norwegian

See also Oskari (Finnish), Oskars (Latvian), Oso, Oszkár (Hungarian)

For female forms see Oscara, Oscarda, Oscaria, Oskarinde, Oskarine, Oskarvine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Oscarinpoika Finland
Oscarsen Denmark Norway
Oscarson Norway Sweden
Oscarssen Norway
Oscarsson Norway Sweden
Oscarsøn Norway

Female

Oscardatter Norway
Oscarintytär Finland
Oscarsdatter Denmark Norway
Oscarsdotter Sweden

Combinations

For combinations see OSCAR (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Oscar
Genitive: Oscars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Oscar
Genitive: Oscarin
Partitive: Oscaria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oscar
Genitive: Oscars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oscar
Genitive: Oscars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 6658 people were named Oscar (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [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[11]
22390 39152 6 18 22384 39134
Denmark Denmark[9]
6379
n.a.
0
n.a.
6379
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
4351 0 0
n.a.
4351
Greenland Greenland[13]
17 29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
18 22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
3860
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
3860
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Oscar (m) Sources: [11][9][15][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Oscar (m) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Oscar (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Oscar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Oscar (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. details see Name Statistic tables