Otter

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Norwegian dialectal variant form of Ottar [1] [2]

Related Names

See Óttarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ottersen Norway
Otterssen Norway

Female

Ottersdatter Norway
Ottersdotter Norway

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Otter
Genitive: Otterin
Partitive: Otteria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Otter
Genitive: Otters
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Otter
Genitive: Otters

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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[3]
0 6 0 0 0 6
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
3 0 0
n.a.
3
Denmark Denmark[5]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Otter.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/