Werner

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Wernher

Related Names

See Warinheri

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Wernersson

Female

Wernersdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Werner
Genitive:	Werners

- Finnish
Nominative:	Werner
Genitive:	Wernerin
Partitive:	Werneriä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Werner
Accusative:	Werner
Dative:	Werner
Genitive:	Werners

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Werner
Genitive:	Werners

- Swedish
Nominative:	Werner
Genitive:	Werners

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 28 October 2011

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1900-1919
• Norway: 1940-1945

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Norrbotten (19th century) see map

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		387	2307	0	4	387	2303
Finland		n.a.	1306	0	0	n.a.	1306
Denmark		478	n.a.	0	n.a.	478	n.a.
Iceland		3	12	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	8	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		652	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	652	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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Werner (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.