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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
Sami
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Origin and Meaning
Pet form of names beginning with Ol-, especially Ólafr and its variants and Oliver [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
For female forms see Olla
Male
Ollesen
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Olleson
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Ollessen
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Ollesson
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Ollessøn
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Olleßøn (17th century)
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Ollesøn
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Female
Combinations
For combinations see OL (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Olle
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Genitive: |
Olles
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Olle
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Genitive: |
Ollen
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Partitive: |
Ollea
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Olle
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Genitive: |
Olles
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Olle
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Genitive: |
Olles
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Name Days
Sami
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29 July
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![Finland (Swedish Language)](https://www.nordicnames.de/img/flags/fi.png) Finland (Swedish Language)
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29 July
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Nils Olof "Olle" Hellbom (8 October 1925 – 5 June 1982), Swedish film director, producer and screenwriter
- Gustaf Edvin Olof "Olle" Adolphson (2 May 1934 – 10 March 2004), Swedish writer, singer and songwriter
- Lars Olof "Olle" Gustaf Ljungström (12 August 1961 – 4 May 2016), Swedish singer, songwriter and musician
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 11,323 people were named Olle (percentage of first or only given name: 50 %) [5]
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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Sweden[7] |
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14109 |
22936 |
4 |
9 |
14105 |
22927 |
Finland[8] |
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n.a. |
565 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
565 |
Denmark[9] |
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19 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
19 |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
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0 |
13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
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95 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
95 |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
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0 |
1 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [7][9][11][8]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [13]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Olle (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables