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Female Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Latinised form of Agnes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
See also Agna, Agnita, Agny, Aunetta, Neta
For male forms see Agneton, Agnetus
Male
Agnetuson
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Female
Agnetudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Agneta
|
Genitive: |
Agnetas
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Agneta
|
Genitive: |
Agnetan
|
Partitive: |
Agnetaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Agneta
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Accusative: |
Agnetu
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Dative: |
Agnetu
|
Genitive: |
Agnetu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Agneta
|
Genitive: |
Agnetas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Agneta
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Genitive: |
Agnetas
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Name Days
 Finland (Swedish Language)
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21 January
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Sweden
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21 January
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Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Agneta Birgitta Klingspor (4 January 1946 – 2 June 2022), Swedish author
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 33,778 people were named Agneta (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [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& |
---|
Sweden[14] |
|
17318 |
33077 |
17318 |
33077 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[15] |
|
n.a. |
2392 |
n.a. |
2392 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[16] |
|
44 |
n.a. |
44 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[17] |
|
3 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
98 |
n.a. |
98 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[19] |
|
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. |
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Agneta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/