Given name & surname
Orvar
“arrow's”
Orvar is a masculine given name from Old Norse, meaning “arrow's.” It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
The story
First recorded in 1830.
Orvar’s family of names
Orvar may belong to the same name family as ORVARR. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Orvar
- Orvar Trolleswimmer (1900–1971)
- Orvar LindwallSwedish fencer1941–2025
- Orvar LöfgrenProfessor Emeritus, Division of Ethnology, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund Universityborn 1943
- Orvar JönssonSwedish fencerborn 1950
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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