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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish and Norwegian younger form of Ólafr [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Ólafr
Male
Olavinpoika
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Olavsen
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Olavson
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Olavssen
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Olavsson
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Olavssøn
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Olavsøn
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Female
Olavdatter
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Olavdotter
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Olavintytär
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Olavsdatter
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Olavsdotter
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Olavsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Olav
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Genitive: |
Olavs
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Olav
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Accusative: |
Olav
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Dative: |
Olavi
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Genitive: |
Olavs
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Olav
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Genitive: |
Olavin
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Partitive: |
Olavia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Olav
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Accusative: |
Olav
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Dative: |
Olav / Olavi
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Genitive: |
Olavs
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Olav
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Genitive: |
Olavs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Olav
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Genitive: |
Olavs
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Name Days
Norway
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29 July
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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29 July
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 1,590 people were named Olav (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [6]
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[8] |
|
310 |
2046 |
0 |
3 |
310 |
2043 |
Denmark[9] |
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754 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
754 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
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n.a. |
1122 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
1122 |
Iceland[11] |
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7 |
13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[12] |
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5 |
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
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14782 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
14782 |
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: [8][9][13][10]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 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/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables