Ottar

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Óttarr

Related Names

See Óttarr

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ottar
Genitive:	Ottars

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ottar
Accusative:	Ottar
Dative:	Ottari
Genitive:	Ottars

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ottar
Genitive:	Ottars

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ottar
Genitive:	Ottars

Name Day

Norway

4 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: After the Protestant Reformation
• Sweden: 1829 (in modern times)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1915-1930

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Jämtland Bohuslän
• Norway: Austlandet (esp. Hedmark), Trøndelag

Namesakes

• Ottar Brox (born 30 August 1932), Norwegian politician and professor of sociology

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		35	134	0	2	35	132
Denmark		15	n.a.	0	n.a.	15	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	8	0	0	n.a.	8
Norway		1542	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	1542	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend