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Oliver

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) New combination of OL and IV [1] [2]

2) English form of the Norman French name Olivier of uncertain origin and meaning

Theories include:

2a) Variant form of ÓlæifR [3] [2]

2b) Variant form of Alfarr (or its German cognate Alfihar) [4] [5] [6]

2c) Variant form of Wolfheri (see Vulfhar) [5] [6]

2d) Later, it was regarded to have Latin origins, Latin olivarius = '(cultivator of) olive tree(s)', but the original use of the name makes theories a), b) and c) more likely [5] [7] [2] [2]

2e) Younger form of Oliverus [1]

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See also Olivarius, Olivert, Olle

For female forms see Oliva, Olivera, Olivia

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Oliverinpoika Finland
Oliversen Denmark Norway
Oliverson Norway
Oliverssen Norway
Oliversson Iceland Sweden
Oliversøn Norway

Female

Oliverdatter Norway
Oliverintytär Finland
Oliversdatter Denmark Norway
Oliversdotter Sweden
Oliversdóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see OLIV (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Oliver
Genitive: Olivers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Oliver
Genitive: Oliverin
Partitive: Oliveria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Oliver
Accusative: Oliver
Dative: Oliver
Genitive: Olivers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oliver
Genitive: Olivers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oliver
Genitive: Olivers

Name Days

Finland Finland

29 May

Norway Norway

3 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

29 May

Sweden Sweden

15 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1,399 people were named Oliver (percentage of first or only given name: 4 %) [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 Sweden[13]
17285 23191 22 43 17263 23148
Denmark Denmark[14]
18080
n.a.
 2
n.a.
 18078
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 19427
n.a.
 30
n.a.
 19397
Iceland Iceland[15]
163 195
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
17 23
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
7800
n.a.
 11
n.a.
 7789
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

Name statistics for Oliver (m) Sources: [13][14][12][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Oliver (m) Sources: [17]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Oliver (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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