Olai

From Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Nameguide note desktop.png

Nameguide note mobile.png

Rate this name:

5.00
(4 votes)



Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

Advertisement:


Origin and Meaning

1) Genitive form of Olaus (see Olavus) [1] [2]

2) Short form of Nicolai [1] [2]

Related Names

Olai
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Olaj
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian
Olay
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Olai
Genitive: Olais
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Olai
Genitive: Olain
Partitive: Olaita
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Olai
Genitive: Olais
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Olai
Genitive: Olais

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 42 people were named Olai (percentage of first or only given name: 7 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Greenland Greenland[4]
0 77
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
47 0 0
n.a.
47
Sweden Sweden[6]
0 35 0 0 0 35
Denmark Denmark[7]
11
n.a.
0
n.a.
11
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
953
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
953
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Olai (m) Sources: [6][7][8][5]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Olai (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  5. 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no