Baby name
FADING
🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 Holger
/HOL · ger/
Meaning
“Island spear”
Old Norse name from 'holmr' (island) and 'geirr' (spear); Holger Danske (Ogier the Dane) is a legendary Danish hero said to sleep beneath Kronborg Castle.
Nicknames
holge
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Feels solidly mid-20th century in Scandinavia; retro without current revival momentum.
The cultural moment.
Common in Denmark and Germany from the 1940s to 1960s; rare for newborns since the 1980s.