Leopold

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Liutpold/Luitbald/Liutbald ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Liutbald

Name Days

Denmark

15 November

Faroe Islands

15 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

28 June

Sweden

15 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1756 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		0	0	392	2289
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	35	n.a
Norway[7]		0	0	33	51
Finland[8]		0	0	n.a	783
#: 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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[5][6][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi