Oswald

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Low German form of Answald [1] [2]

2) Old Saxon form of Answald [3] [4]

3) Anglo-Saxon form of Answald [1] [2]

4) English younger form of Osweald [5] [6] [7] [8]

5) Creative spelling of Osvald (see Osvaldr) [9]

Related Names

See Answald

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Oswald
Genitive: Oswalds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Oswald
Genitive: Oswaldin
Partitive: Oswaldia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oswald
Genitive: Oswalds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oswald
Genitive: Oswalds

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 191 people were named Oswald (percentage of first or only given name: 21 %) [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[11]
40 246 0 0 40 246
Denmark Denmark[12]
98
n.a.
0
n.a.
98
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
160 0 0
n.a.
160
Iceland Iceland[14]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
12
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Oswald.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  3. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  4. Wilhelm Schlaug: Studien zu den altsächsischen Personennamen des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts (1955)
  5. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  7. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  8. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  9. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/