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1) Nomen agentis of the Old Norse verb *snerra, which probably meant 'making noise' (compare the Old Norse female nown snerra = 'attack, battle, smart shock, onslaught') [1]
2) Old Norse name meaning 'the fast one' deriving from a verb snerre = 'to turn oneself quickly' (compare Snorri) [2]
3) Old Norse snerrir = 'smart, sharpwhitted person' [3]
Snerre | ♂ |
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Snerrir | ♂ |
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Snære | ♂ |
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SnærriR | ♂ |
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Name Element |
Example |
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BJÖRN | see Snærri-Biǫrn |
In old Runic scripts, SnærriR is difficult to distinguish from SnorriR [1]
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[4] |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Denmark[5] |
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0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Norway[6] |
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0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Finland[7] |
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n.a. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Greenland[8] |
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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 SnærriR.