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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Halvard [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Hallvarðr
Grammar
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Halvar
|
Genitive: |
Halvarin
|
Partitive: |
Halvaria
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Halvar
|
Genitive: |
Halvars
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Halvar
|
Genitive: |
Halvars
|
Name Days
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
6 July
|
Sweden
|
14 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,099 people were named Halvar (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [6]
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[8] |
|
78 |
598 |
0 |
13 |
78 |
585 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
18 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
18 |
Denmark[10] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
181 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
181 |
n.a. |
Greenland[12] |
|
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. |
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Halvar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/