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Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse variant form, Old Swedish and Danish and Norwegian younger form of Óli [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Óli
Male
Olesen
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Oleson
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Olessen
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Olesson
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Olessøn
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Olesøn
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Olsen
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Olson
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Olssen
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Olsson
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Olssøn
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Olsøn
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Female
Oledatter
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Oledotter
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Olesdatter
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Olesdotter
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Olsdatter
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Olsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ole
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Genitive: |
Oles
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ole
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Genitive: |
Olen
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Partitive: |
Olea
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ole
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Genitive: |
Oles
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ole
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Genitive: |
Oles
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Name Days
Norway
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29 July
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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29 July
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Norway: 17th century [3]
- Denmark: appears in the baptism registers of Skast herred (Næsbjerg, Øse, Fåborg, Grimstrup, Årre) in the period 1756-1760 [8]
- Sweden: 1844 (in modern times) [4] [9]
- Iceland: Officially rejected as a given name on 31 October 2005 [10]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), Danish physician and antiquary
- Ole Christensen Rømer (25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710), Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light
- Ole Bornemann Bull (5 February 1810 – 17 August 1880), Norwegian violinist and composer
- Ole Olsen (5 May 1863 – 5 October 1943), Danish film producer and the founder of Nordisk Film (1906)
- Ole Olsen (born 16 November 1946), Danish motorcycle speedway rider
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 1,016 people were named Ole (percentage of first or only given name: 50 %) [11]
- Ole Lukøje is the Danish name for the sandman: Danish luk = 'close' + Danish øje = 'eye'
- Ole was a heavy storm in Norway and Sweden in February 2015.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[13] |
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29495 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
29495 |
n.a. |
Sweden[14] |
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881 |
2108 |
0 |
0 |
881 |
2108 |
Greenland[15] |
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412 |
1583 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[16] |
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n.a. |
1775 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
1775 |
Iceland[17] |
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9 |
13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
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30658 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
30658 |
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
Sources: [14][13][18][16]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Ole (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Erik Henrik Lind: Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden (Supplementband (1931)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables