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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Orla f for the female version.
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Male usage of the originally female Irish name Orla f [1] [2]
Related Names
See Órfhlaith
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Orla
|
Genitive: |
Orlas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Orla
|
Genitive: |
Orlan
|
Partitive: |
Orlaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Orla
|
Genitive: |
Orlas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Orla
|
Genitive: |
Orlas
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Peter Martin Orla Lehmann (15 May 1810 – 13 September 1870), Danish statesman
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 58 people were named Orla m (percentage of first or only given name: 53 %) [5]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[6] |
|
1688 |
n.a. |
6 |
n.a. |
1682 |
n.a. |
Sweden[7] |
|
36 |
79 |
15 |
25 |
21 |
54 |
Greenland[8] |
|
8 |
14 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
28 |
n.a. |
21 |
n.a. |
7 |
Iceland[10] |
|
1 |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
21 |
n.a. |
16 |
n.a. |
5 |
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Orla.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no