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Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish form of Paul [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Paul
Male
Poulsen
|
|
Female
Poulsdatter
|
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Poul
|
Genitive: |
Pouls
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Poul
|
Accusative: |
Poul
|
Dative: |
Pouli
|
Genitive: |
Pouls
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Poul
|
Genitive: |
Poulin
|
Partitive: |
Poulia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Poul
|
Genitive: |
Pouls
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Poul
|
Genitive: |
Pouls
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Poul Helgesen (ca 1485 – not mentioned after 1534), Danish Carmelite, a humanist and historian
- Poul Martin Møller (21 March 1794 – 13 March 1838), Danish academic, writer and poet
- Poul Holmskov Schlüter (3 April 1929 - 27 May 2021), Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
- Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (born 15 June 1943), Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001
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[8] |
|
21487 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
21487 |
n.a. |
Sweden[9] |
|
223 |
509 |
0 |
3 |
223 |
506 |
Greenland[10] |
|
193 |
410 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
64 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
64 |
Iceland[12] |
|
5 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
134 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
134 |
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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References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables