Vidar

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Víðarr [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Víðarr

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Vidar
Genitive: Vidars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Vidar
Genitive: Vidarin
Partitive: Vidaria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Vidar
Genitive: Vidars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Vidar
Genitive: Vidars

Name Days

Norway Norway

29 December

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

2 April

Sweden Sweden

31 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Vidar was a heavy storm in Norway in January 2017.

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&
Sweden Sweden[5]
4145 5873 3 12 4142 5861
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
518 0 0
n.a.
518
Denmark Denmark[7]
113
n.a.
0
n.a.
113
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
9109
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
9109
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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

Name statistics for Vidar (m) Sources: [5][7][9][6]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Vidar (m) Sources: [11]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Vidar (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. details see Name Statistic tables