Holger

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
Sami

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish variant form and younger form of Holmger

Related Names

See HolmgæiRR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Holgersen
Holgerson
Holgerssen
Holgersson
Holgerssøn
Holgersøn

Female

Holgerdatter
Holgersdatter
Holgersdotter
Holgersdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Holger
Genitive:	Holgers

- Finnish
Nominative:	Holger
Genitive:	Holgerin
Partitive:	Holgeria

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Holger
Accusative:	Holger
Dative:	Holger
Genitive:	Holgers

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Holger
Genitive:	Holgers

- Old Swedish
Nominative:	Holger
Genitive:	Holgeri

- Swedish
Nominative:	Holger
Genitive:	Holgers

Name Days

Norway

30 March

Sami

2 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 August

Sweden

30 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
• Norway: ca 1520 (earlier in Sweden and Denmark)
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 9 January 2013

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • 1900-1919
  • 1995-
• Norway:
  • 1900-1930
• Sweden:
  • 1910-1929

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Skåne (20th century)
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
• Norway:
  • Rogaland
  • Nordland
• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Lolland-Falster

Namesakes

• Holger Danske, Danish legendary character (9th century?)
• Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908), Danish poet and dramatist

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		1829	8995	0	0	1829	8995
Denmark		3553	n.a.	0	n.a.	3553	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	3533	0	0	n.a.	3533
Greenland		39	140	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		6	9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		299	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	299	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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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Holger (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.