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Harald

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Haraldr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See *HarjawaldaR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Haraldsen Denmark Norway
Haraldson Norway Sweden
Haraldssen Denmark Norway
Haraldsson Old Swedish Iceland Sweden
Haraldssøn Norway
Haraldsøn Norway

Female

Haralddatter Norway
Haraldsdatter Denmark Norway
Haraldsdotter Old Swedish Norway Sweden
Haraldsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Harald
Genitive: Haralds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Harald
Genitive: Haraldin
Partitive: Haraldia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Harald
Accusative: Harald
Dative: Harald
Genitive: Haralds
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Harald
Genitive: Haralds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Harald
Genitive: Haralds

Name Days

Norway Norway

17 May

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

1 April

Sweden Sweden

1 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Harald Gabriel Hjärne (2 May 1848 – 6 January 1922), Swedish historian
  • Harald V (born 21 February 1937), King of Norway)
  • Harald Johnstein Rønneberg (born 11 August 1973), Norwegian television personality

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 30570 people were named Harald (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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 Sweden[12]
2647 14242 0 2 2647 14240
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 4258 0 0
n.a.
 4258
Denmark Denmark[14]
1588
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 1588
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
43 136
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
27 38
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
13468
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 13468
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

Name statistics for Harald (m) Sources: [12][14][17][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Harald (m) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Harald (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Harald (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Harald (m)


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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