Truls

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish variant form of Truels

Related Names

See Þórgísl

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Trulsson

Female

Trulsdotter

Name Day

Norway

19 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: ca 1450
• Sweden: 1478 (Skåne)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1990-2005

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Austlandet
  • Buskerud
  • Rogaland
  • Sogn og Fjordane
• Sweden:
  • Skåne (20th century)
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map

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		703	1125	0	0	703	1125
Denmark		12	n.a.	0	n.a.	12	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	11	0	0	n.a.	11
Norway		3104	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	3104	n.a.
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Truls (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.