Olaug

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Norwegian younger form of Ólaug [1] [2]

Related Names

See Ólaug

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Olaug
Genitive: Olaugs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Olaug
Genitive: Olaugs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Olaug
Genitive: Olaugs

Name Day

Norway Norway

24 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 88 people were named Olaug (percentage of first or only given name: 56 %) [3]

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[4]
18 55 18 55 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
6
n.a.
6
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
2
n.a.
2 0 0
Norway Norway[7]
2555
n.a.
2555
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Olaug (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/