Rudolf

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

German modern form of Hruodolf ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Hruodolf

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Rudolf
Accusative:	Rudolf
Dative:	Rudolf
Genitive:	Rudolfs

Name Days

Faroe Islands

9 December

Norway

27 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 March

Sweden

27 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1360 ^[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	1	658	4326
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	334	n.a
Norway[7]		0	0	196	397
Finland[8]		n.a.	2	n.a	4175
#: 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^[7]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
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