Oliver

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Oliver is a male given name , which is also used as a family name , especially in English-speaking countries . In the German-speaking world, the first name Oliver was not widely used until the late 1950s. The feminine version of the name is Olivia , Olivera , also Livia. In France it is used as Olivier and in Italy as Oliviero .

Origin and meaning

The origin of the name is not finally clear:

  • Scandinavian : common word root with Olaf and the names Ólafur and Óleifr, which are still popular in Iceland today .
    The meaning of the name is descendant of the ancestor . Germanic names were extremely diverse and only about 4 out of 1,000 people had the same first name. Olafr, Oleifr, Olver, Olvar and Olbhur were different spellings with the same meaning in England. In the old Icelandic Landnámabók (land acquisition book, book of the settlement of Iceland from 870 to 930) 17 variants of the name Oliver are mentioned.
  • Old High German : from Alfhari / Althir
    The meaning of the syllables is then alf = Elb / Alb / small nature being + hari = army / warrior . In the Beowulf an vonlfher von der Schildingen is mentioned, in the Waldere the Ælfhere as the father of the Waldere.
  • Latin : Olivarius , olive planter.

With the Norman conquest of England in 1066 from France, the French name was probably merged with Olaf or Oleifr to become Oliver. In the Middle Ages, around the year 1075 to 1100, the name became known throughout Europe through the figure of Olivier, a historically unsecured paladin or knight and friend of Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747; † January 28, 814) in the Roland song .

distribution

The first name Oliver was rarely given in the first half of the 20th century. Its popularity rose sharply from the late 1950s. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the name was among the ten most common boy names of the respective years. Then its popularity gradually declined a bit. Even in the new millennium, however, the name is still in use.

Name days

July 10th, July 11th

The evangelical name day of Oliver is July 10th. The Catholic name day is July 11th, after the death of Irish Bishop Oliver Plunkett , who was canonized in 1975 . Another saint with this name is Oliver of Ancona .

Name bearer

stage name

  • Oliver (singer) (1945-2000), American pop singer
  • Jan Oliver, actually Jan Bühlmann (* 1987), Swiss singer, model and Mister Switzerland 2010

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Fictional characters

variants

  • female: Olivia , Olivera , also Livia
  • French: Olivier
  • Icelandic: Ólafur
  • Scandinavian: Olaf
  • Gaelic: Olaghair
  • Portuguese: Oliveiros, Oliveira
  • Italian: Oliviero
  • Latin: Olivarius, Oliverus
  • Czech: Oliver
  • Hawaiian : Oliwa
  • Polish: Oliwer
  • Russian: Оливер
  • Serbian: Оливер / Oliver
  • Short forms: Ol, Oli, Olli, Olly, Oly, Olie, Ollie, Oloi, Ole, Olle, Ohl, Öhle, Ollü, Ölu, Öli, Ölä, Ollo, Olni, Olmo
  • Other variants: Noll, Oliverio, Olivero, Oliviero, Olivor, Olley, Olliver, Ollivor, Oliwr, Ollivar

Web links

Wiktionary: Oliver  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiktionary: Olaf
  2. ^ A b George Black: The Surname of Scotland . ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 2007, ISBN 978-1-874744-83-2 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.macleodgenealogy.org
  3. ↑ a b Oliver . ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Genuki @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.genuki.org.uk
  4. ↑ army. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ↑ Beowulf, 2604.
  6. ^ Waldere , fragment I.
  7. ↑ Lodovico Ariosto, Hermann Kurz: Ariost's rasender Roland , Pforzheim 1841.
  8. ^ Franz Pfeiffer, Karl Bartsch, Otto Behaghel, Adalbert Jeitteles: Germania: Quarterly publication for German antiquity . 1856.
  9. ↑ August Friedrich Christian Vilmar: History of the German national literature . Marburg 1857.
  10. ↑ Cola Minis : To visualize past philological nights . 1981.
  11. ↑ Alois Wolf: heroic saga and epic . Breisgau 1994.
  12. ↑ Statistics on popular first names