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Orvald
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Origin and Meaning
1) New combination of names beginning with Or- and VALD [1] [2]
2) Norwegian younger form of *Ǫrvaldr [1]
Related Names
| Orvald | ♂ |   |
 
|
Grammar
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Orvald |
| Genitive: | Orvalds |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Orvald |
| Genitive: | Orvalds |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Period of Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 24 people were named Orvald (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [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& | |
 Greenland[5] |
  |
0 | 109 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Sweden[6] |
|
0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
 Denmark[7] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
|
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
1 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1 |
| #: 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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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Orvald.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi