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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Danish
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish and younger form of Æinarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Related Names
See Æinarr
Male
Einarsen
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Einarson
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Einarsson
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Female
Einarsdatter
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Einarsdotter
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Einarsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Einar
|
Genitive: |
Einars
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Einar
|
Accusative: |
Einar
|
Dative: |
Einari
|
Genitive: |
Einars
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Einar
|
Genitive: |
Einarin
|
Partitive: |
Einaria
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Einar
|
Accusative: |
Einar
|
Dative: |
Einari
|
Genitive: |
Einars
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Einar
|
Genitive: |
Einars
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Einar
|
Genitive: |
Einars
|
Name Days
Faroe Islands
|
26 September
|
Norway
|
26 September
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
17 November
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Sweden
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26 September
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 37942 people were named Einar (percentage of first or only given name: 20 %) [14]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[16] |
|
2295 |
14819 |
0 |
3 |
2295 |
14816 |
Finland[17] |
|
n.a. |
10905 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
10905 |
Iceland[18] |
|
2443 |
2904 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[19] |
|
394 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
394 |
n.a. |
Greenland[20] |
|
8 |
18 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[21] |
|
10569 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
10569 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [16][19][21][17]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [22]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Einar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables