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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Swedish variant form of Odder [1] [2]
2) Old Danish form of Oddr [3]
3) Norwegian younger form of Oddr [1] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Oddr
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Odd
|
Genitive: |
Odds
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Odd
|
Genitive: |
Oddin
|
Partitive: |
Oddia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Odd
|
Genitive: |
Odds
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Odd
|
Genitive: |
Odds
|
Name Day
Norway
|
15 April
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Odd Hassel, 17 May 1897 – 11 May 1981, Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1969)
- Odd "Ivers" Iversen (6 November 1945 – 29 December 2014), Norwegian footballer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 867 people were named Odd (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
725 |
1398 |
0 |
2 |
725 |
1396 |
Denmark[8] |
|
82 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
82 |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
55 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
55 |
Iceland[10] |
|
3 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
18188 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
18188 |
n.a. |
Greenland[12] |
|
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
Sources: [7][8][11][9]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [13]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables