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Rolf

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Hrólfr (see *Hrōðiwulfaz) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Short form of Rolof [3] [8] [9]

3) Variant form of Råg (see Ráðugr) [2]

4) Short form of Rollef (see HróðlæifR) [2] [3]

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Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rolfsson Iceland

Female

Rolfsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rolf
Genitive: Rolfs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rolf
Genitive: Rolfin
Partitive: Rolfia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rolf
Accusative: Rolf
Dative: Rolf
Genitive: Rolfs
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rolf
Genitive: Rolfs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rolf
Genitive: Rolfs

Name Days

Norway Norway

27 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 March

Sweden Sweden

27 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

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&
Sweden Sweden[13]
23330 48702 0 3 23330 48699
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
 4364 0 0
n.a.
 4364
Denmark Denmark[15]
1479
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 1479
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
9 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
7 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
11955
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 11955
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 Rolf (m) Sources: [13][15][18][14]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Rolf (m) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Rolf (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Rolf (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Rolf (m)


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  9. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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