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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) English younger form of Osgar (see ÁsgæiRR) [1] [2] [3]
2) Irish name
a) Combination of Irish Gaelic os = 'deer' and cara/caraid = 'friend, relative' [2] [4] [5] [6]
b) From an Irish name Oscur of unknown meaning [1]
Related Names
See also Oskari (Finnish), Oskars (Latvian), Oso, Oszkár (Hungarian)
For female forms see Oscara, Oscarda, Oscaria, Oskarinde, Oskarine, Oskarvine
Male
Oscarinpoika
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Oscarsen
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Oscarson
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Oscarssen
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Oscarsson
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Oscarsøn
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Female
Oscardatter
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Oscarintytär
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Oscarsdatter
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Oscarsdotter
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Combinations
For combinations see OSCAR (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Oscar
|
Genitive: |
Oscars
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Oscar
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Genitive: |
Oscarin
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Partitive: |
Oscaria
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Oscar
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Genitive: |
Oscars
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Oscar
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Genitive: |
Oscars
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Oscar I (né Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte, 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859), King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death
- Oscar II (né Oscar Fredrik, 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907), King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905
- Oscar Fredrik von Sydow (12 July 1873 - 19 August 1936), Prime Minister of Sweden (1921)
- Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen (4 October 1888 – 10 April 1954), Norwegian speed skater
- Oscar Fredrik Torp (8 June 1893 – 1 May 1958), former Prime Minister of Norway (1951-1955)
- Nils Oscar Edwin Töringe (born 15 June 1983), Swedish actor
- Oscar Carl Olof (born 2 March 2016), Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Skåne (Prince of Sweden, Duke of Skåne)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 6658 people were named Oscar (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [8]
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& |
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Sweden[11] |
|
22390 |
39152 |
6 |
18 |
22384 |
39134 |
Denmark[9] |
|
6379 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
6379 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
4351 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
4351 |
Greenland[13] |
|
17 |
29 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
18 |
22 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
3860 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
3860 |
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
Sources: [11][9][15][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Oscar (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables