Ulf

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of UlfR ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See UlfR

Name Days

Norway

11 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 July

Sweden

11 April

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Götaland ^[2]

Namesakes

Ulf Svante von Euler, 7 February 1905 – 9 March 1983, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1970)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	1	35291	65216
Norway[5]		0	0	984	2471
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	734	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	1964
#: 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^[5]:

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

References

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