Reinar

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Male Male Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Reiner (see Raginheri) [1] [2] [3]

2) Faroese form of Reinhard [4]

Related Names

Reinar
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Reynar
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Reinarsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Reinarsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Reinar
Genitive: Reinars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Reinar
Accusative: Reinar
Dative: Reinari
Genitive: Reinars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Reinar
Genitive: Reinarin
Partitive: Reinaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Reinar
Accusative: Reinar
Dative: Reinari
Genitive: Reinars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Reinar
Genitive: Reinars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Reinar
Genitive: Reinars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 43 people were named Reinar (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [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 Sweden[8]
12 33 0 0 12 33
Denmark Denmark[9]
14
n.a.
0
n.a.
14
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
5 0 0
n.a.
5
Iceland Iceland[11]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
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 Reinar.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  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/