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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish, Old Danish and younger form of Hróarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Hróðarr
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Roar
|
Genitive: |
Roars
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Roar
|
Genitive: |
Roarin
|
Partitive: |
Roaria
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Roar
|
Genitive: |
Roars
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Roar
|
Genitive: |
Roars
|
Name Day
Norway
|
4 January
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Lars Roar Langslet (5 March 1936 – 18 January 2016), Norwegian politician
- Roar Ljøkelsøy (born 31 May 1976), Norwegian ski jumper
Trivia
- Roar was a heavy storm in Norway in October 2015.
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& |
---|
Denmark[9] |
|
285 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
285 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
83 |
190 |
0 |
0 |
83 |
190 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
17 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
17 |
Iceland[12] |
|
2 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
6656 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
6656 |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
|
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
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/