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Rainer
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Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
German younger form of Raginheri [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Raginheri
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Rainer |
| Genitive: | Rainers |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Rainer |
| Genitive: | Rainerin |
| Partitive: | Raineria |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Rainer |
| Genitive: | Rainers |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Rainer |
| Genitive: | Rainers |
Name Days
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1 October |
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1 October |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Finland: Berndt Rainer von Fieandt (26 December 1890 – 28 April 1972), Finnish banker and prime minister of Finland (1957-1958)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 598 people were named Rainer (percentage of first or only given name: 34 %) [7]
| The German pronunciation of Rainer can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de. |
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& | |
| Finland[8] |
  |
n.a. |
11025 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
11025 |
| Sweden[9] |
 |
545 | 1342 | 0 | 0 | 545 | 1342 |
| Denmark[10] |
 |
119 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
119 | n.a. |
 Iceland[11] |
  |
1 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
|
216 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
216 | n.a. |
 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Rainer.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/