Elof

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger variant form of Elef

Related Names

See ÆilæifR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elofson
Elofsson

Female

Elofsdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Elof
Genitive:	Elofs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Elof
Genitive:	Elofin
Partitive:	Elofia

- Swedish
Nominative:	Elof
Genitive:	Elofs

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 January

Sweden

30 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1491

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1900-1919
• Norway: 1910-1915

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Halland (19th century) see map

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		510	3486	0	2	510	3484
Finland		n.a.	579	0	0	n.a.	579
Denmark		22	n.a.	0	n.a.	22	n.a.
Iceland		0	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	4	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Elof (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.