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Ulf
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Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of UlfR [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
See UlfR
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Ulfinpoika |
|
| Ulfsen |
|
| Ulfson |
|
| Ulfssen |
|
| Ulfsson |
|
| Ulfsøn |
|
Female
| Ulfintytär |
|
| Ulfsdatter |
|
| Ulfdotter |
|
| Ulfsdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ulf |
| Genitive: | Ulfs |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ulf |
| Genitive: | Ulfin |
| Partitive: | Ulfia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ulf |
| Genitive: | Ulfs |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ulf |
| Genitive: | Ulfs |
Name Days
|
|
11 April |
|
|
5 July |
|
|
11 April |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905 – 9 March 1983), Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
(Physiology or Medicine, 1970) - Ulf Arne Söderblom (5 February 1930 – 4 February 2016), Finnish conductor and music professor
- Ulf Oscar Sand (22 May 1938 - 29 December 2014), Norwegian civil servant and politician
- Ulf Gerhard Lundell (born 20 November 1949), Swedish author and singer
- Ulf Hjalmar Ed Kristersson (born 29 December 1963), Swedish politician and Prime Minister of Sweden (2022- )
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 54,097 people were named Ulf (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %) [11]
- Ulf was a heavy storm in Norway in January 2001.
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[12] |
  |
31585 | 62618 | 0 | 4 | 31585 | 62614 |
| Finland[13] |
  |
n.a. |
2140 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
2140 |
| Denmark[14] |
|
696 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
696 | n.a. |
| Greenland[15] |
  |
5 | 31 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[16] |
  |
3 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[17] |
|
2196 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2196 | 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. |
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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no