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Spanish name from a title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Pilar 'Our Lady of the Pillar'. In AD 40 the Virgin appeared, standing on a pillar, to St James the Greater at Saragossa.
The Spanish word pilar (masculine!) derives, via Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila = 'pillar', 'stone barrier' [1] [2]
Pilar | ♀ |
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- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Pilar |
Genitive: | Pilars |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Pilar |
Genitive: | Pilarin |
Partitive: | Pilaria |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Pilar |
Genitive: | Pilars |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Pilar |
Genitive: | Pilars |
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[3] |
|
99 | 512 | 99 | 510 | 0 | 2 |
Finland[4] |
|
n.a. |
97 | n.a. |
97 | 0 | 0 |
Denmark[5] |
|
36 | n.a. |
36 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Iceland[6] |
|
1 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
|
29 | n.a. |
29 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
|
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 Pilar.