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Not sure if this is really a famous "bearer" but E. E. Cummings wrote a famous poem entitled "I sing of Olaf Glad and Big".
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I despise the movie Frozen which puts a stereotype that people with this name are strange at most times. But even without the movie, the name sounds immature. I would recommend using it as a nickname for Alefir instead of using it as a full name.
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Your kid will get hella teased with this name... cause of Frozen...
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I love the name... but man, I cannot stop thinking about that silly snowman from Frozen.
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Also Estonian: https://www.stat.ee/public/apps/nimed/
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I hate Frozen and this name. Olaf is such an ugly name.
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Doesn’t sound right for some reason.
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I don't like the meaning, it's weird. The name is alright I guess.
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Snoopy has a brother named Olaf.
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This name was awesome until Frozen came out.
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I can't hear this name without thinking of the annoying talking snowman from Frozen, Olaf. Just doesn't appeal to me.
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Olaf Ittenbach is a German horror movie director, actor and special effects artist.
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According to (http://www.babynames.ch/Info/Name/naOlaf) Olaf ranked 96th place in Germany (2005) and 50th place in Warsaw, Poland (2008).
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I strongly associate this name with some evil antagonist, even without the infamous Series of Unfortunate Events. Olaf honestly sounds like some stereotypical name for perhaps numerous character villains.
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A famous bearer of this name is Olaf Thon is a German retired footballer, and a current coach. Mainly a central midfielder, his 19-year professional career was solely associated to Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich, having amassed more than 500 official games and 100 goals for both combined. Nicknamed The Professor, he also collected more than 50 caps for the German national team.
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A famous bearer of this name is Olaf Hampel. He is a German bobsledder who competed during the 1990s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won gold medals in the four-man event in both 1994 and 1998.
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Olaf's name day is July 29th in many European countries including Germany and Poland.
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According to http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/babies-first-names-full-list/2010-2019/babies-first-names-2015.xlsx. Olaf was given to 5 boys in Scotland in 2015.
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Olaf Johannessen is a Faroese actor.
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In my opinion, Olaf sounds very Norwegian.
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Also used in the Faroe Islands. (http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Olaf).
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Also Icelandic. Source: https://www.island.is/mannanofn/leit-ad-nafni/?Nafn=Olaf&Stulkur=on&Drengir=on&Millinofn=on
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My name's Olaf and I'm from Norway.
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Olaf was given to 22 boys in America in 2014, possibly after Olaf in the 2013 movie 'Frozen'.
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"Some people are worth melting for" - Olaf the Snowman (Frozen 2013).
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Olaf was the oldest son of King Christian I of Denmark and his wife Dorothea.
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Count Olaf is a fun but sadistic character, and the name sounds more like a surname, so I wouldn't use this name.
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Two words: Count Olaf. This association with the name makes it rather unappealing to me.
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My assosiation of this name with Count Olaf makes it funny to me for some reason. I don't know why, as Count Olaf isn't a funny character. But it makes me laugh. There's just something inherently goofy about this name (no offense to anyone named Olaf).
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I am very proud to have the name Olaf.
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This name also exists in the same form in Polish. [noted -ed]
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The first time I heard this name was in A Series of Unfortunate Events and I thought Snicket made it up, it was so goofy sounding.
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This name reminds me of pure evil because of Count Olaf in the Series of Unfortunate Events. I never liked it anyways, so I don't mind.
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In Nancy Farmer's book "The Sea of Trolls", Olaf was the head of King Ivar the Boneless's berserkers, the wolf-headed men.
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This is also the name of the bad guy in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Count Olaf.
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I would note though that if I had this name I’d probably mention that it was the name of a saint and many kings of Norway to add to the seriousness of the name.