Ole

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and Danish and Norwegian modern form of Óli ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Óli

Name Days

Norway

29 July

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1844 (in modern times) ^[3]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Bohuslän ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	34597	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	5526	32318
Sweden[6]		0	0	995	2115
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	1678
#: 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^[6][4][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi