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[Facts] Popularity of IGOR in Scandinavia
Can anyone tell me, how popular IGOR is or was in Scandinavia? What about other forms like Ingvar?Andy ;—)
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Thanks to all of you!
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Iver, a variant of Ingvar/Igor, ranked 85 in the hitparade of names for newborns in Norway in the year 2003, up from 86 in 2002.Norway is probably *the* place in Scandinavia where "old" names are still popular.René
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Hi Andy,Igor:Sweden - 711
Norway - 128
Denmark - 156
Finland - approx. 700
Iceland - 9Ingvar:Sweden - 49,680
Norway - 1,555
Denmark - 217
Finland - approx. 530
Iceland - 719Most Igors in the Nordic countries probably have got Russian parents. Usually people don't even know that Igor is a variant form of Ingvar as it sounds very foreign.In Sweden, Ingvar was very common in the 1940s and 1950s, especially as a second name. Nowadays it is an old fashioned name, which is not old enough to become popular again. Viele Grüße
Satu
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Igor is very uncommon in Sweden - I don't know about the other Scandinavian countries. Ingvar was very common about 60 years ago, but is very rarely used for children.
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