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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) Low German form of Answald [1] [2]
2) Old Saxon form of Answald [3] [4]
3) Anglo-Saxon form of Answald [1] [2]
4) English younger form of Osweald [5] [6] [7] [8]
5) Creative spelling of Osvald (see Osvaldr) [9]
Related Names
See Answald
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Oswald
|
Genitive: |
Oswalds
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Oswald
|
Genitive: |
Oswaldin
|
Partitive: |
Oswaldia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Oswald
|
Genitive: |
Oswalds
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Oswald
|
Genitive: |
Oswalds
|
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 191 people were named Oswald (percentage of first or only given name: 21 %) [10]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[11] |
|
40 |
246 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
246 |
Denmark[12] |
|
98 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
98 |
n.a. |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
160 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
160 |
Iceland[14] |
|
2 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
12 |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
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 Oswald.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Wilhelm Schlaug: Studien zu den altsächsischen Personennamen des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts (1955)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/