Lars

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.

Lars

1. A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
   • 2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said.

Formed within English as a plural form of lar, q.v.

Lars (plural only)

1. Alternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities

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• Veka, O., Coleman, N. L. (2010). A Handbook of Scandinavian Names. United States: University of Wisconsin Press

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From Latin Laurentius in the Middle Ages. Cognate with English Laurence.

Lars

1. a male given name

• (male names) Lasse, Laurits, Laurids, Lauritz, Laurs, Laust
• (female names) Larsine
• (surnames) Larsen

• [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 60 014 males with the given nameLars have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Borrowed from a Scandinavian language.

• IPA^(key): /lɑrs/

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• Hyphenation: Lars
• Rhymes: -ɑrs

Lars m

1. a male given name

Lars m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Lars: Larsson
• daughter of Lars: Larsdóttir

Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Lars in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Lars

1. a male given name

Lars m

1. a male given name

This name is not declined.

From Latin Laurentius, first recorded in Norway in the 15th century. Cognate with English Laurence.

• IPA^(key): /laːrs/, /laːʂ/

Lars m (definite Larsen)

1. a male given name

In dialects which do have definite forms of given names, the definite form of Lars is Larsen. In some other dialects, while speaking about a concrete person named Lars, pronoun han is added: han Lars.

Patronymics:

• son of Lars: Larsson
• daughter of Lars: Larsdotter

• (male given names) Lasse, Lavrans, Laurits
• (surnames) Larsen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 30 381 males with the given name Lars living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century and a minor peak in the 1970s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

From Latin Laurentius. First recorded in Sweden in 1524. Cognate with English Laurence.

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Lars c (genitive Lars)

1. a male given name

• The most common first name of men born in Sweden in the 1940s and the 1950s

• (male given names) Lasse
• (surnames) Larsson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån: 235 086 males with the given name Lars living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on 19 June 2011.