Jarle

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Iarli

Related Names

See Jarl

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Jarle
Genitive:	Jarles

- Finnish
Nominative:	Jarle
Genitive:	Jarlen
Partitive:	Jarlea

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Jarle
Genitive:	Jarles

- Swedish
Nominative:	Jarle
Genitive:	Jarles

Name Day

Norway

24 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: After the Protestant Reformation

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1930-1969
• Norway: 1960-1970

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Trøndelag (1920-1940)
  • Hedmark (1920-1940)
  • Møre og Romsdal (1920-1940)
  • Nordland (1920-1940)
  • Troms (1920-1940)
  • Vestlandet (in the 1950s)
  • Agder (in the 1980s)
  • Sør-Vestlandet (in the 1980s)
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Dalarna

Namesakes

• Jarle Høysæter (29 April 1933 – 28 February 2017), Norwegian journalist
• Jarle Aarbakke (born 18 November 1942), rector at the University of Tromsø (2002-2013), mayor of Tromsø

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 31 people were named Jarle (percentage of first or only given name: 35 %)

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		49	108	0	0	49	108
Denmark		45	n.a.	0	n.a.	45	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	17	0	0	n.a.	17
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		6284	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	6284	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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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend