Pär

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish variant spelling of Per

Related Names

See Petrus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Pärson
Pärsson

Female

Pärsdotter

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Pär
Genitive:	Pärin
Partitive:	Päriä

- Swedish
Nominative:	Pär
Genitive:	Pärs

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Västergötland (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Pär Fabian Lagerkvist, 23 May 1891 — 11 July 1974, Swedish author and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1951)

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		7819	16878	0	2	7819	16876
Finland		n.a.	274	0	0	n.a.	274
Denmark		20	n.a.	0	n.a.	20	n.a.
Norway		n.a.	n.a.	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Pär (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.