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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Swedish and modern form of Randolfr [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Old High German name, combination of RAND and ULF [5] [6] [7] [4]
Related Names
See also Randall
Cognates
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Randolf
|
Genitive: |
Randolfs
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Randolf
|
Genitive: |
Randolfin
|
Partitive: |
Randolfia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Randolf
|
Genitive: |
Randolfs
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Randolf
|
Genitive: |
Randolfs
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 153 people were named Randolf (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [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] |
|
9 |
67 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
67 |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
41 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
41 |
Denmark[11] |
|
4 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
4 |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
44 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
44 |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
|
0 |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Randolf.
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)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Dr. Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches namenbuch (1856)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 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
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/