Osmund

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish and younger form of Ásmundr

Related Names

See Ásmundr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Osmundsen

Female

Osmundsdatter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Osmund
Genitive:	Osmunds

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Osmund
Genitive:	Osmunds

- Swedish
Nominative:	Osmund
Genitive:	Osmunds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: ca 1300
• Sweden: 1876 (Höör, Skåne)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1909
  • 1920-1929
• Norway:
  • 1900-1925
  • -1950

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • After the Protestant Reformation:
    • Telemark
  • Later:
    • Agder
    • Sør-Vestlandet
    • Rogaland
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 11 people were named Osmund (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %)

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		7	n.a.	0	n.a.	7	n.a.
Sweden		0	4	0	0	0	4
Norway		140	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	140	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1	0	0	n.a.	1
Greenland		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 Osmund.