Thule

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish

Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Greek Θούλη, a place name used by the Greek explorer Pytheas (380 - ca. 310 BC) for an island somewhere 'farthest north' ^[1]

It is uncertain, which place he meant, guesses include Greenland, Iceland, Smøla in Norway, Saaremaa in Estonia, Shetland Islands

The meaning of the name is uncertain. Theories include

1) Greek tholos = 'mud, slime' ^[2]

2) Greek tele = 'far' ^[2]

3) Celtic thuai = 'north' ^[2]

4) From the name of the legendary king Thulus ^[2]

Related Names

Thule	♂
Tule	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1884 ^[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	1	12	39
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	5	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	1
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Thule.

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi