Arnold

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

German modern form of Arnoald ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Arnoald

Name Days

Denmark

1 December

Norway

1 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

16 November

Sweden

4 August

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Arnold
Accusative:	Arnold
Dative:	Arnoldi
Genitive:	Arnolds

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Arnold
Accusative:	Arnold
Dative:	Arnold
Genitive:	Arnolds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1291 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	0	831	5953
Norway[5]		0	0	587	1084
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	293	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	1322
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi