Given name
Eirikur
Eirikur is a masculine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Norse. It is used in Faroese.
Original Old NorseEiríkr
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Eirikur comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Faroese usage, Eirikur developed from Eiríkr.
Eirikur’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Eirikur shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form Erik. In Faroese usage, Eirikur has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eric. In Faroese usage, Eirikur shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Nynorsk form Eirik.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eirikur has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Eirikur comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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