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Oluf

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Danish younger form of Olaf (see Ólafr) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Ollu ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Olluf ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Olluff ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Oluf ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Oluff ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Ûluvfe ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Greenlandic
Uuluffi ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Greenlandic

For female forms see Olufdine, Oluffa, Olufine

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Oluf
Genitive: Olufs
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Oluf
Accusative: Oluf
Dative: Olufi
Genitive: Olufs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Oluf
Genitive: Olufin
Partitive: Olufia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oluf
Genitive: Olufs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oluf
Genitive: Olufs

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

29 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 51 people were named Oluf (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [8]

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&
Denmark Denmark[9]
576
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 576
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
21 67
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
12 53 0 0 12 53
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 4 0 0
n.a.
 4
Norway Norway[13]
116
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 116
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Oluf (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  13. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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