Herluf

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Icelandic
Norwegian
Swedish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish variant form of Herlof

Related Names

See Herlof

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Herlufsen
Herlufson
Herlufssen
Herlufsson
Herlufssøn
Herlufsøn

Female

Herlufsdatter
Herlufsdotter
Herlufsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Herluf
Genitive:	Herlufs

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Herluf
Accusative:	Herluf
Dative:	Herluf
Genitive:	Herlufs

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Herluf
Genitive:	Herlufs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Herluf
Genitive:	Herlufs

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 15th century
• Greenland: 1951

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1910-1929
• Norway: 1925-1935

Period of Usage

• Norway: -1972

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Nordjylland
• Norway:
  • Rogaland

Namesakes

• Herluf Trolle (14 January 1516 – 25 June 1565), Danish naval hero

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&
Denmark		544	n.a.	0	n.a.	544	n.a.
Sweden		6	25	0	0	6	25
Greenland		5	16	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		5	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	2	0	0	n.a.	2
Norway		9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	9	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 Herluf.