Nordahl

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Nordal [1] [2]

Related Names

See Nordal

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nordahl
Genitive: Nordahls
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nordahl
Genitive: Nordahls
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nordahl
Genitive: Nordahls

Further Information

The first children named Nordahl were named after the surname of Johan Nordahl Brun (21 March 1745 — 26 July 1816), Norwegian poet, dramatist and bishop [2]

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Norway:
    • uncertain (not sure if it is a second given name or a middle name): 1809 (Bergen) [2]
    • certain: 1840 (Hadsel, Nordland) [2]

Strongest Period of Usage

Namesakes

  • Johan Nordahl Brun Rolfsen (12 June 1848 – 18 January 1928), Norwegian writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker
  • Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg (1 November 1902 – 2 December 1943), Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist

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 Sweden[3]
0 15 0 2 0 13
Denmark Denmark[4]
4
n.a.
0
n.a.
4
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[5]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
27
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
27
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Iceland Iceland[8]
0 1
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Nordahl.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  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. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/