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Palmer

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Male form of Palma [1] [2]

2) Variant form of Palmar [1] [2]

2) From the English surname Palmer [1], deriving from Old French palmer, paumer = 'palmer, pilgrim to the Holy Land', so called from the palm-branch he carried (see also Palma) [3] [2]

Related Names

Palmer ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Palmar

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Palmersen Norway

Female

Palmerdatter Norway
Palmersdatter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Palmer
Genitive: Palmers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Palmer
Genitive: Palmerin
Partitive: Palmeria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Palmer
Genitive: Palmers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Palmer
Genitive: Palmers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 101 people were named Palmer (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [4]

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[5]
8 42 0 3 8 39
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 9 0 0
n.a.
 9
Denmark Denmark[7]
3
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 3
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
68
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 68
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Palmer.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson: Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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