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Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Variant form of Olavus [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Short form of Nikolaus (see Nikolaos) [4]
Related Names
Male
Olauksenpoika
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Olausen
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Olauson
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Olaussen
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Olausson
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Olaussøn
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Olausøn
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Female
Olauksentytär
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Olausdatter
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Olausdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Olaus
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Genitive: |
Olaus'
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Olaus
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Genitive: |
Olausin
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Partitive: |
Olausia
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Olaus
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Genitive: |
Olaus'
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Olaus
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Genitive: |
Olaus' / Olaus
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Name Day
Sweden
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19 April
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Olof Persson (6 January 1493 - 19 April 1552, Latin Olaus Petri, or, less commonly, Olavus Petri), clergyman, writer, judge and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 891 people were named Olaus (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [5]
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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Sweden[7] |
|
7 |
268 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
268 |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
44 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
44 |
Denmark[9] |
|
1 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Norway[10] |
|
101 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
101 |
n.a. |
Greenland[11] |
|
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. |
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Olaus (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/