Odd

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish variant form of Odder ^[1]

2) Old Danish form of Oddr ^[2]

3) Norwegian modern form of Oddr ^{[1] [3]}

Related Names

See Oddr

Name Day

Norway

15 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1849 ^[1]

Namesakes

Odd Hassel, 17 May 1897 – 11 May 1981, Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1969)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		0	0	5292	22372
Sweden[5]		0	0	721	1290
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	91	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	3	n.a	38
#: 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][4][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi