Rainer

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Raginheri [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Raginheri

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rainer
Genitive: Rainers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rainer
Genitive: Rainerin
Partitive: Raineria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rainer
Genitive: Rainers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rainer
Genitive: Rainers

Name Days

Finland Finland

1 October

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

1 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 598 people were named Rainer (percentage of first or only given name: 34 %) [7]


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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 Finland[8]
n.a.
11025 0 0
n.a.
11025
Sweden Sweden[9]
545 1342 0 0 545 1342
Denmark Denmark[10]
119
n.a.
0
n.a.
119
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
1 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
216
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
216
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Rainer.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/