Given name & surname
Geir
“one who wields a spear”
Geir is used as a given name and a surname. One Scandinavian interpretation is “one who wields a spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scandinavian interpretation is “one who wields a spear.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scandinavian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Geir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 146 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geir’s family of names
Geir has a related form in Gear. Geir has a related form in Geare. Geir has a related form in Geer.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 Geir
- Geir HaardeIcelandic politician and former head of governmentborn 1951
- Thomas Hylland EriksenNorwegian social anthropologist and professor (1962–2024)
- Geir HallgrímssonPrime Minister of Iceland (1925-1990)
- Geir IvarsøyNorwegian computer prgrammer (1957–2006)
- Geir KarlstadNorwegian speed skaterborn 1963
- Geir RönningNorwegian singer-songwriterborn 1962
- Geir MoenNorwegian athletics competitor (born 1969)
- BiosphereNorwegian musicianborn 1962
- Geir LundestadNorwegian historian and director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1945–2023)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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