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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Latin spelling of Katharina (see also -rina) [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Katharina
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Catharina
|
Genitive: |
Catharinas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Catharina
|
Genitive: |
Catharinan
|
Partitive: |
Catharinaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Catharina
|
Genitive: |
Catharinas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Catharina
|
Genitive: |
Catharinas
|
Name Day
Denmark
|
25 November
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Catharina Bröms (5 October 1665 - 27 October 1735), Swedish ironmaster
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 5777 people were named Catharina (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
4758 |
9647 |
4758 |
9642 |
0 |
5 |
Denmark[9] |
|
580 |
n.a. |
580 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
887 |
n.a. |
887 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[11] |
|
2 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
516 |
n.a. |
516 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
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
Sources: [8][9][12][10]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Catharina (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/