Ronald

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

English (Scottish) form of Rǫgnvaldr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Ragnvaldr

Name Days

Norway

9 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 September

Sweden

16 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1887 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	0	991	2574
Norway[4]		0	0	680	1088
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	488	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	2	n.a	458
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi