Yngvar

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Yngvarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Ingvarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Yngvarsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Yngvarsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Yngvar
Genitive: Yngvars
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Yngvar
Accusative: Yngvar
Dative: Yngvari
Genitive: Yngvars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Yngvar
Genitive: Yngvarin
Partitive: Yngvaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Yngvar
Accusative: Yngvar
Dative: Yngvari
Genitive: Yngvars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Yngvar
Genitive: Yngvars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Yngvar
Genitive: Yngvars

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

25 September

Norway Norway

25 September

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

23 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Yngvar Ustvedt (8 April 1928 – 29 January 2007), Norwegian writer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 153 people were named Yngvar (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [8]

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[9]
17 69 0 0 17 69
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
25 0 0
n.a.
25
Iceland Iceland[11]
6 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[12]
4
n.a.
0
n.a.
4
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
799
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
799
n.a.
Greenland 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

Norwegian historic statistics for Yngvar (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/