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Elvar

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Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Alvar [1]

2) Variant form of Elver (see ÆilífR) [1]

3) Old Norse elfar = 'rivers' [2]

4) Male form of Elva [1] [3]

Related Names

Elfar ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic Swedish
Elvar ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Elvard ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish

For female forms see Elvör

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elvarsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Elvarsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elvar
Genitive: Elvars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Elvar
Accusative: Elvar
Dative: Elvari
Genitive: Elvars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elvar
Genitive: Elvarin
Partitive: Elvaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Elvar
Accusative: Elvar
Dative: Elvari
Genitive: Elvars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elvar
Genitive: Elvars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elvar
Genitive: Elvars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[6]
557 727
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
21 42 0 0 21 42
Denmark Denmark[8]
17
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 17
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 15 0 0
n.a.
 15
Norway Norway[10]
43
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 43
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Elvar (m) Sources: [12]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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