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Female Name
Usage
Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of names containing the name element ADAL [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
2) Hebrew עָדָה ('ada) = 'adornment', 'ornament' [1] [2] [3] [7] [4] [8] [6] [9]
3) Variant form of Agda (see Agða) [4]
Related Names
See also Addi, Adina, Ata
For male forms see Adar
Male
Öduson
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Female
Ödudóttir
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Combinations
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ada
|
Genitive: |
Adas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ada
|
Genitive: |
Adan
|
Partitive: |
Adaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Ada
|
Accusative: |
Ödu
|
Dative: |
Ödu
|
Genitive: |
Ödu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ada
|
Genitive: |
Adas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ada
|
Genitive: |
Adas
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Name Days
Norway
|
4 March
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
16 December
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Sweden
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10 March
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Bible
- In the Old Testament Ada was the wife of Esau
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 3,287 people were named Ada (percentage of first or only given name: 91 %) [11]
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& |
---|
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
5160 |
n.a. |
5160 |
0 |
0 |
Sweden[14] |
|
776 |
1500 |
773 |
1490 |
3 |
10 |
Denmark[15] |
|
367 |
n.a. |
361 |
n.a. |
6 |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
6 |
53 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[17] |
|
12 |
19 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
3251 |
n.a. |
3251 |
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: [14][15][18][13]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Ada (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Anders Malmsten: Svenska namnboken (2000)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 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/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables