Given name & surname
Ejnar
“a warrior”
Ejnar is used as a given name and a surname. One Danish interpretation is “a warrior.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Danish interpretation is “a warrior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Danish.
How it developed
From Old Norse Einarr, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ejnar’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Ejnar shares an earlier linguistic root with Einar. In Danish usage, Ejnar has a related form in JENNER. In Swedish usage, Ejnar has a related form in Einar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ejnar
- Ejnar HertzsprungDanish astronomer and chemist1873–1967
- Ejnar MikkelsenDanish explorer and writer1880–1971
- Ejnar DyggveDanish architectural historian and archaeologist (1887–1961)
- Einar OlssonSwedish association football player, Nordic combined skier and ski jumper (1886-1983)
- Ejnar NielsenDanish painter (1872-1956)
- Ejnar TønsagerNorwegian rower1888–1967
- Ejnar OlssonSwedish ice hockey player (1895–1925)
- Ejnar Mindedal RasmussenDanish architect (1892–1975)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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