Olaus

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Olavus

2) Short form of Nikolaus (see Nikolaos)

Related Names

Olau	♂
Olaus	♂

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Olauksenpoika
Olausen
Olauson
Olaussen
Olausson
Olaussøn
Olausøn

Female

Olauksentytär
Olausdatter
Olausdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Olaus
Genitive:	Olaus'

- Finnish
Nominative:	Olaus
Genitive:	Olausin
Partitive:	Olausia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Olaus
Genitive:	Olaus'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Olaus
Genitive:	Olaus' / Olaus

Name Day

Sweden

19 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1323
• Norway: 18th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 18th century -1940
• Sweden:
  • 1865-1929
  • 1920-1929

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Öland (19th century) see map
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Nordsverige

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 %)

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		7	268	0	0	7	268
Finland		n.a.	44	0	0	n.a.	44
Denmark		1	n.a.	0	n.a.	1	n.a.
Norway		101	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	101	n.a.
Greenland		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.