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Olu
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Origin and Meaning
1) Norwegian and Swedish dialectal variant form of Olof (see Ólǫf) [1] [2]
2) Finnish dialectal form of Olga [3]
Related Names
| Olu | ♀ |   |
  
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Grammar
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Olu |
| Genitive: | Olun |
| Partitive: | Olua |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Olu |
| Genitive: | Olus |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Olu |
| Genitive: | Olus |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 51 people were named Olu (percentage of first or only given name: 53 %) [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[6] |
|
16 | 55 | 16 | 53 | 0 | 2 |
 Denmark[7] |
  |
1 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
2 | n.a. |
2 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway[9] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 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. |
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Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Olu (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/