Ólafr

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse variant form of ÓlæifR [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Olaf
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Danish Faroese Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Olaff
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Old Swedish
Olafr
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Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Ólafr
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Old Norse
ÓlafR
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Old Norse
Óláfr
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Old Norse
Olafuer
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Old Norse
Olafur
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ólafur
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Icelandic
Olauer
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Old Swedish
Olav
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Olaw
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Swedish
Olavi
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Finish Norwegian Swedish
Olavur
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Danish Icelandic
Ólavur
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Faroese
Ollauff
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Old Norse
Ulaavi
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Greenlandic
Ûlâve
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Greenlandic
Ûlavfe
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Greenlandic
Uulaavi
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Greenlandic
Uulaffi
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Greenlandic

See also

Combinations

For combinations see OL (name element)

Further Information

Namesakes

  • Ólafr Tryggvason (960s – 1000), King of Norway from 995 to 1000
  • Ólafr Haraldsson, also called Ólafr digri = 'the fat, the stout' (995 – 29 July 1030), King of Norway from 1015 to 1028

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ólafr.


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/