Harold

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English form of Harald [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See *HarjawaldaR

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Harold
Genitive: Harolds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Harold
Genitive: Haroldin
Partitive: Haroldia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Harold
Genitive: Harolds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Harold
Genitive: Harolds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 154 people were named Harold (percentage of first or only given name: 28 %) [5]

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]
65 216 0 0 65 216
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
150 0 0
n.a.
150
Denmark Denmark[8]
39
n.a.
0
n.a.
39
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
3 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
115
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
115
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 Harold.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no