Ragnar

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Danish
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and younger form of Ragnarr

Related Names

See Ragnarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ragnarsen
Ragnarsson

Female

Ragnarsdatter
Ragnarsdotter
Ragnarsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ragnar
Genitive:	Ragnars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ragnar
Accusative:	Ragnar
Dative:	Ragnari
Genitive:	Ragnars

- Finnish
Nominative:	Ragnar
Genitive:	Ragnarin
Partitive:	Ragnaria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ragnar
Accusative:	Ragnar
Dative:	Ragnari
Genitive:	Ragnars

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ragnar
Genitive:	Ragnars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ragnar
Genitive:	Ragnars

Name Days

Norway

25 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

1 October

Sweden

1 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway:
  • 1851 (Åmot, Hedmark)
  • 1854 (Oslo)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1900-1919
  • 1900-1929
• Denmark:
  • -1910
• Norway:
  • 1920-1940

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Østfold
  • Vestfold
• Denmark:
  • København
• Sweden:
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Västsverige

Namesakes

• Ragnar Östberg (14 July 1866 - 5 February 1945), Swedish architect who is most famous for designing Stockholm City Hall
• Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973), Norwegian economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 1969)
• Ragnar Arthur Granit, 30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991, Finnish/Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1967)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 40,343 people were named Ragnar (percentage of first or only given name: 16 %)

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		2003	15289	0	6	2003	15283
Iceland		1238	1791	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	3649	0	0	n.a.	3649
Denmark		201	n.a.	0	n.a.	201	n.a.
Greenland		0	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		4173	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	4173	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 Ragnar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.