Kari 3

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Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: This name is used both as a female and a male name.
See Kari f for the female version
See Kari m for the Old Danish male version
See Kari 1 for the Finnish male version
See Kari 2 for the Greenlandic male version

Usage

Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse kari = 'wind', 'gust', 'squall'

Related Names

Kari

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Grammar

- Old Norse
Nominative:	Kari
Accusative:	Kara
Dative:	Kara
Genitive:	Kara

Further Information

Norse Mythology

• Kari is the name of a jǫtunn, who is one of the sons of the ancestor Fornjótr. The name of his son is Frosti or Jǫkull. Kari is the grandfather of king Snær

Namesakes

• Kari is the name of a moon of Saturn

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&
Finland		n.a.	57268	n.a.	44	n.a.	57224
Sweden		2250	3252	506	850	1744	2402
Denmark		484	n.a.	445	n.a.	39	n.a.
Greenland		8	27	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		3	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		24542	n.a.	24491	n.a.	51	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Kari (m).
However, statistics data has been found for the female variant. This indicates that this name is more common as a female name in the Nordic countries, see Kari (female name).