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Ragnvald
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Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Faroese
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish and younger form of Ragnvaldr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Ragnvaldr
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Ragnvaldsson |
|
Female
| Ragnvaldsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ragnvald |
| Genitive: | Ragnvalds |
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ragnvald |
| Accusative: | Ragnvald |
| Dative: | Ragnvald |
| Genitive: | Ragnvalds |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ragnvald |
| Genitive: | Ragnvaldin |
| Partitive: | Ragnvaldia |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ragnvald |
| Accusative: | Ragnvald |
| Dative: | Ragnvald |
| Genitive: | Ragnvalds |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ragnvald |
| Genitive: | Ragnvalds |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ragnvald |
| Genitive: | Ragnvalds |
Name Days
|
|
21 August |
|
|
5 September |
|
|
15 July |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway:
- Sogn og Fjordane (after the Protestant Reformation) [2]
- Sweden:
Namesakes
- Ragnvald Blakstad (20 May 1866 – 26 April 1929), Norwegian industrialist and hydropower pioneer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 4,307 people were named Ragnvald (percentage of first or only given name: 6 %) [8]
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[9] |
  |
106 | 1235 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 1235 |
| Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
299 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
299 |
| Denmark[11] |
 |
7 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
7 | n.a. |
| Iceland[12] |
  |
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[13] |
|
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
497 | n.a. |
 Greenland[14] |
  |
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. |
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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/