Raul

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway 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

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Raul
Genitive: Rauls
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Raul
Genitive: Raulin
Partitive: Raulia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Raul
Genitive: Rauls
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Raul
Genitive: Rauls

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) 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

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 Sweden[8]
527 929 0 0 527 929
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
1039 0 0
n.a.
1039
Denmark Denmark[10]
105
n.a.
0
n.a.
105
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
8 10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
146
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
146
n.a.
Greenland 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

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  3. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/