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Verner
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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Werner [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Warinheri
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Verner |
| Genitive: | Verners |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Verner |
| Genitive: | Vernerin |
| Partitive: | Verneriä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Verner |
| Genitive: | Verners |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Verner |
| Genitive: | Verners |
Name Days
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|
17 August |
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|
17 August |
|
|
17 August |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Sweden:
- Denmark:
- 13th century [4]
- A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
- Norway:
- 17th century [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Austlandet, esp. Ringsaker in Hedmark [6]
- Vestlandet [6]
- Denmark:
- Sweden:
- Norrbotten (19th century) see map [7]
- Uppland (19th century) see map [7]
- Gästrikland (19th century) see map [7]
- Östergötland (19th century) see map [7]
Namesakes
- Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940), Swedish poet, novelist and Nobel laureate
(Literature, 1916)
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. |
6948 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
6948 |
| Sweden[9] |
|
312 | 4997 | 0 | 0 | 312 | 4997 |
| Denmark[10] |
|
2331 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2331 | n.a. |
| Greenland[11] |
  |
10 | 36 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
 |
116 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
116 | 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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Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Verner (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no