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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
Male
Ragnvaldsson
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Female
Ragnvaldsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ragnvald
|
Genitive: |
Ragnvalds
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Ragnvald
|
Accusative: |
Ragnvald
|
Dative: |
Ragnvald
|
Genitive: |
Ragnvalds
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ragnvald
|
Genitive: |
Ragnvaldin
|
Partitive: |
Ragnvaldia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Ragnvald
|
Accusative: |
Ragnvald
|
Dative: |
Ragnvald
|
Genitive: |
Ragnvalds
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ragnvald
|
Genitive: |
Ragnvalds
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ragnvald
|
Genitive: |
Ragnvalds
|
Name Days
Norway
|
21 August
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
5 September
|
Sweden
|
15 July
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
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
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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& |
---|
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] |
|
497 |
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. |
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/