Olav

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and Norwegian modern form of Ólafr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Ólafr

Name Days

Norway

29 July

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1873 (in modern times) ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		0	0	9882	15774
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	815	n.a
Sweden[5]		0	1	386	2204
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	1018
#: 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][4][3][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

Sources: ^{[5] [4] [3] [6]}

References

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