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Asger
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Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of ÁsgæiRR [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See ÁsgæiRR
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Asgersen |
|
Female
| Asgersdatter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asger |
| Genitive: | Asgers |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asger |
| Genitive: | Asgers |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asger |
| Genitive: | Asgers |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Asger Oluf Jorn (né Jørgensen, 3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973), Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author
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& | |
| Denmark[6] |
  |
6029 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
6029 | n.a. |
| Sweden[7] |
 |
30 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 53 |
| Greenland[8] |
  |
6 | 14 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[9] |
  |
2 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
5 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
5 |
| Norway[11] |
|
27 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
27 | 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: Top List Ranking
Sources: [12]
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables