Geir
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Geir is a masculine name commonly given in Norway and Iceland. It is derived from Old Norse geirr "spear", a common name element in Germanic names in general, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (whence also Old High German gêr, Old English gâr, Gothic gaisu).
Key facts
- Given name.name
- Geir
- Given name.meaning
- spear
- Given name.region
- Norway
- Given name.origin
- Old Norse
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- Instance of
- male given name
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- name day
- May 30
- language of work or name
- Norwegian
- native label
- Geir
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- G600
- Cologne phonetics
- 47
- Caverphone
- KA11111111
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- Geir (given name)
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Geir is a masculine name commonly given in Norway and Iceland. It is derived from Old Norse geirr "spear", a common name element in Germanic names in general, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (whence also Old High German gêr, Old English gâr, Gothic gaisu).
The popularity of the given name peaked in Norway during the 1950s to 1980s, with above 2% of newly born boys named Geir during the late 1960s to 1970s. As of 2014, the National statistics office of Norway recorded 22,380 men with the given name, or 0.9% of total male population. The Old Norse spelling Geirr is also rarely given (89 individuals in Norway as of 2014). Geir is also rarely given in Sweden and Denmark.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.