Signar

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic name

1) Male form of Signe (see Signý)

2) Old Norse signaðr = 'blessed'

3) New combination of SIGN and HER

4) New combination of SIG and NAR

Related Names

Signar	♂
Signer	♂

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Signarsson

Female

Signarsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Signar
Genitive:	Signars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Signar
Accusative:	Signar
Dative:	Signari
Genitive:	Signars

- Finnish
Nominative:	Signar
Genitive:	Signarin
Partitive:	Signaria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Signar
Accusative:	Signar
Dative:	Signari
Genitive:	Signars

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Signar
Genitive:	Signars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Signar
Genitive:	Signars

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1859
• Norway:
  • 1879 (Kristiania)
  • 1893

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1910-1929
• Norway: 1945-1960

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Nordland

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		76	311	0	0	76	311
Finland		n.a.	25	0	0	n.a.	25
Denmark		10	n.a.	0	n.a.	10	n.a.
Iceland		2	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		57	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	57	n.a.
Greenland		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 Signar.