Halvar

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Halvard [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Hallvarðr

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Halvar
Genitive: Halvarin
Partitive: Halvaria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Halvar
Genitive: Halvars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Halvar
Genitive: Halvars

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 July

Sweden 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

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 Sweden[8]
78 598 0 13 78 585
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
18 0 0
n.a.
18
Denmark Denmark[10]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
181
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
181
n.a.
Greenland 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. Swedish Regional Distribution for Halvar (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/