Sverrir

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse byname meaning 'troublemaker'

From Old Norse sverri- (Nynorsk sverra) = 'swinging around' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

Sverre
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Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Sverrer
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Norwegian
Sverri
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Danish Faroese
Sverrir
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Icelandic Old Norse
Sverry
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Norwegian
Sverry
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Swedish
Sværri
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Old Norse

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Sverrisson Iceland

Female

Sverrisdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sverrir
Accusative: Sverri
Dative: Sverri
Genitive: Sverris

Further Information

Namesakes

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&
Iceland Iceland[8]
577 701
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
25 34 0 0 25 34
Denmark Denmark[10]
15
n.a.
0
n.a.
15
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
19
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
1 0 0
n.a.
1
Greenland Greenland[13]
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 Sverrir.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  5. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/