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Male Name
Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic and German spelling of Raúl, which is a Spanish and Portuguese form of Radolf [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Radolf
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Raul
|
Genitive: |
Rauls
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Raul
|
Genitive: |
Raulin
|
Partitive: |
Raulia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Raul
|
Genitive: |
Rauls
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Raul
|
Genitive: |
Rauls
|
Name Day
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
27 August
|
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 257 people were named Raul (percentage of first or only given name: 61 %) [7]
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[8] |
|
527 |
929 |
0 |
0 |
527 |
929 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
1039 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
1039 |
Denmark[10] |
|
105 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
105 |
n.a. |
Iceland[11] |
|
8 |
10 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
146 |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
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 Raul.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 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
- ↑ 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/