Ulf

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of UlfR [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See UlfR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ulfinpoika Finland
Ulfsen Norway
Ulfson Norway Sweden
Ulfssen Norway
Ulfsson Old Swedish Sweden
Ulfsøn Norway

Female

Ulfintytär Finland
Ulfsdatter Norway
Ulfdotter Sweden
Ulfsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ulf
Genitive: Ulfs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ulf
Genitive: Ulfin
Partitive: Ulfia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ulf
Genitive: Ulfs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ulf
Genitive: Ulfs

Name Days

Norway Norway

11 April

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

5 July

Sweden Sweden

11 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905 – 9 March 1983), Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physiology or Medicine, 1970)
  • Ulf Arne Söderblom (5 February 1930 – 4 February 2016), Finnish conductor and music professor
  • Ulf Oscar Sand (22 May 1938 - 29 December 2014), Norwegian civil servant and politician
  • Ulf Gerhard Lundell (born 20 November 1949), Swedish author and singer
  • Ulf Hjalmar Ed Kristersson (born 29 December 1963), Swedish politician and Prime Minister of Sweden (2022- )

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 54,097 people were named Ulf (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %) [11]
  • Ulf was a heavy storm in Norway in January 2001.

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[12]
31585 62618 0 4 31585 62614
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
2140 0 0
n.a.
2140
Denmark Denmark[14]
696
n.a.
0
n.a.
696
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
5 31
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
2196
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2196
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

Norwegian historic statistics for Ulf (m)


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no