Poul

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish form of Paul

Related Names

See Paul

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Poulsen

Female

Poulsdatter

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

• Denmark: 14th century
• Sweden: 1847

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1920-1939
• Sweden: 1920-1939
• Norway: 1925-1955

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Lolland-Falster, Fyn

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

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		21487	n.a.	0	n.a.	21487	n.a.
Sweden		223	509	0	3	223	506
Greenland		193	410	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	64	0	0	n.a.	64
Iceland		5	7	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		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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