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Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
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Origin and Meaning
Norwegian younger form of Vargr [1] [2]
Related Names
See Vargr
Grammar
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Varg
|
Genitive: |
Vargs
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Varg
|
Genitive: |
Vargs
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Namesakes
- Varg Veum is the name of the detective in the books of the Norwegian author Gunnar Staalesen. It is inspired by the Old Norse expression vargr í véum = 'a wolf in the sanctuary (= an outlaw, used of one who commits a crime in a holy place, and is thereon declared accursed) [1] [3]
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& |
---|
Sweden[4] |
|
63 |
387 |
4 |
29 |
59 |
358 |
Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
2 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
2 |
Denmark[6] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
|
284 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
284 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [4][6][7][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/