Eldar

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic name

New combination of ELD and HER

Related Names

Eldar

♂

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Eldarsson

Female

Eldarsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Eldar
Genitive:	Eldars

- Finnish
Nominative:	Eldar
Genitive:	Eldarin
Partitive:	Eldaria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Eldar
Accusative:	Eldar
Dative:	Eldari
Genitive:	Eldars

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Eldar
Genitive:	Eldars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Eldar
Genitive:	Eldars

Name Day

Norway

12 July

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway:
  • 1868 (Brønnøy, Nordland)
  • 1890
• Iceland:
  • In the census of 1910 (Snæfellsnessýsla)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1950-1965
  • 2005-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Møre og Romsdal

Namesakes

• Eldar Rønning (born 11 June 1982), Norwegian cross-country skier

Trivia

• Eldar is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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		205	265	0	0	205	265
Iceland		33	45	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		37	n.a.	0	n.a.	37	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	49	0	0	n.a.	49
Norway		652	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	652	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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