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Name Holger

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From a Old Norse word for island

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About the name Holger in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	German, Scandinavian
Topics:	Asteroid 9266 Holger, discovered 1978
US 2024 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Hilger, Colter, Helder, Helge, Helge, Helmer, Holde, Holden, Homer, Kolter Details

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About Holger, the group of names with the same origin as Holger

Language of origin:	Old Norse
Info about origin:	old Germanic two-element name
	very popular and well known in Denmark as the name of the national hero Holger Danske
Words:	holmi = the island Old Norse
	geirr = the spear Old Icelandic
Topics:	Two-element name
Variants' top ranks:	26:Holger Denmark 2023
Old/original forms:	Holmger Old Norse

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Popularity lists that contain the name Holger

Series	Graph	Rankings
Denmark	Graph	2023 26, 2022 32, 2021 46
Germany prevalence		2005 74