Ulv

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Ulf [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See UlfR

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ulv
Genitive: Ulvs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ulv
Genitive: Ulvs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ulv
Genitive: Ulvs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 36 people were named Ulv (percentage of first or only given name: 92 %) [8]

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[9]
26 74 0 2 26 72
Denmark Denmark[10]
10
n.a.
0
n.a.
10
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
3 0 0
n.a.
3
Norway Norway[12]
59
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
59
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 Ulv.


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  7. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/