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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Olaf f for the female version.
Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Ólafr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Ólafr
Male
Olafinpoika
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Olafsen
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Olafson
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Olafssen
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Olafsson
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Olafssøn
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Olafsøn
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Female
Olafdatter
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Olafintytär
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Olafsdatter
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Olafsdotter
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Olafsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Olaf
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Genitive: |
Olafs
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Olaf
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Accusative: |
Olaf
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Dative: |
Olafi
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Genitive: |
Olafs
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Olaf
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Genitive: |
Olafin
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Partitive: |
Olafia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Olaf
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Accusative: |
Olaf
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Dative: |
Olaf / Olafi
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Genitive: |
Olafs
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Olaf
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Genitive: |
Olafs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Olaf
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Genitive: |
Olafs
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Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 275 people were named Olaf m (percentage of first or only given name: 32 %) [10]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[11] |
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548 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
548 |
n.a. |
Sweden[12] |
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205 |
548 |
0 |
0 |
205 |
548 |
Finland[13] |
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n.a. |
262 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
261 |
Iceland[14] |
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28 |
37 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[15] |
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14 |
45 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
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2012 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2012 |
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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[12][11][16][13]:
Sources: [12] [11] [16] [13]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[16]:
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no