Oliva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Oleiv (see Oleif) [1] [2] [3]

2) Female form of Ola [1] [2] [3]

3) Female form of Ole (see Óli) [1] [3]

4) Female form of Oliver [1] [3]

5) Latin oliva = 'olive fruit', 'olive tree' [3]

6) Variant form of Olivia [3]

Related Names

Oliv
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Swedish
Oliva
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Olive
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Olivia

Combinations

For combinations see OLIV (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Oliva
Genitive: Olivas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Oliva
Genitive: Olivan
Partitive: Olivaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oliva
Genitive: Olivas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oliva
Genitive: Olivas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 353 people were named Oliva (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %) [4]

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[6]
18 90 18 88 0 2
Denmark Denmark[7]
26
n.a.
25
n.a.
1
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
8
n.a.
8 0 0
Norway Norway[9]
106
n.a.
106
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Oliva (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Oliva (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/