Holger

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic
Sami Sami

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish variant form and younger form of Holmger [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See HolmgæiRR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Holgersen Denmark Norway
Holgerson Norway Sweden
Holgerssen Norway
Holgersson Iceland Norway Sweden
Holgerssøn Norway
Holgersøn Norway

Female

Holgerdatter Norway
Holgersdatter Denmark Norway
Holgersdotter Norway Sweden
Holgersdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Holger
Genitive: Holgers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Holger
Genitive: Holgerin
Partitive: Holgeria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Holger
Accusative: Holger
Dative: Holger
Genitive: Holgers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Holger
Genitive: Holgers
Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Holger
Genitive: Holgeri
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Holger
Genitive: Holgers

Name Days

Norway Norway

30 March

Sami Sami

2 August

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

2 August

Sweden Sweden

30 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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 Sweden[13]
1829 8995 0 0 1829 8995
Denmark Denmark[14]
3553
n.a.
0
n.a.
3553
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
3533 0 0
n.a.
3533
Greenland Greenland[16]
39 140
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
6 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Holger (m) Sources: [13][14][18][15]

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
  12. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no