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Reidar
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Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
Finnish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Hræiðarr [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Hræiðarr
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Reidarsson |
|
Female
| Reidarsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Reidar |
| Genitive: | Reidars |
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Reidar |
| Accusative: | Reidar |
| Dative: | Reidari |
| Genitive: | Reidars |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Reidar |
| Genitive: | Reidarin |
| Partitive: | Reidaria |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Reidar |
| Accusative: | Reidar |
| Dative: | Reidari |
| Genitive: | Reidars |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Reidar |
| Genitive: | Reidars |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Reidar |
| Genitive: | Reidars |
Name Days
|
|
28 July |
|
|
9 May |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Austlandet (esp. Buskerud) (after the Protestant Reformation) [2]
- Vest-Agder (after the Protestant Reformation) [2]
- Oslo (around 1900) [2]
- Austlandet (around 1900) [2]
- Sweden:
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 1563 people were named Reidar (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [7]
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[8] |
  |
457 | 1406 | 0 | 0 | 457 | 1406 |
| Finland[9] |
 |
n.a. |
181 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
181 |
| Denmark[10] |
|
62 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
62 | n.a. |
| Iceland[11] |
  |
2 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
 |
5425 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
5425 | 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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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/