Assar

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Ansvar

Related Names

See *AndswaruR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Assarinpoika
Assarsen
Assarsson

Female

Assarintytär
Assarsdatter
Assarsdotter

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Assar
Genitive:	Assarin
Partitive:	Assaria

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Assar
Genitive:	Assars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Assar
Genitive:	Assars

Name Day

Sweden

16 December

Further Information

Assar sometimes used to be "Latinised" as Ahasverus

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1920-1939

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Austlandet (until the 16th century)
  • Rogaland (after the Protestant Reformation)
• Sweden:
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (20th century)

Namesakes

• Assar Thorvald Nathanael Gabrielsson (1891 - 1962), Swedish industrialist and co-founder of Volvo.

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		731	2382	0	2	731	2380
Finland		n.a.	142	0	0	n.a.	142
Denmark		2	n.a.	0	n.a.	2	n.a.
Norway		9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	9	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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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