Ottar

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Óttarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Óttarr

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ottar
Genitive: Ottars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ottar
Accusative: Ottar
Dative: Ottari
Genitive: Ottars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ottar
Genitive: Ottars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ottar
Genitive: Ottars

Name Day

Norway Norway

4 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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 Sweden[8]
35 134 0 2 35 132
Denmark Denmark[9]
15
n.a.
0
n.a.
15
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
8 0 0
n.a.
8
Norway Norway[11]
1542
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
1542
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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

Norwegian historic statistics for Ottar (m)


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/