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Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of Alberta and variant forms [1]
2) Latin alba = 'white' (Female form of Albinus/Latin translation of Blanca) [1] [2] [3] [4]
3) Female form of Albo [4]
Related Names
Male
Ölbuson
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Female
Ölbudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Alba
|
Genitive: |
Albas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Alba
|
Genitive: |
Alban
|
Partitive: |
Albaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Alba
|
Accusative: |
Ölbu
|
Dative: |
Ölbu
|
Genitive: |
Ölbu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Alba
|
Genitive: |
Albas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Alba
|
Genitive: |
Albas
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 107 people were named Alba (percentage of first or only given name: 73 %) [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& |
---|
Denmark[7] |
|
1861 |
n.a. |
1859 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
990 |
1310 |
990 |
1308 |
0 |
2 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
251 |
n.a. |
251 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[10] |
|
33 |
68 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[11] |
|
3 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
351 |
n.a. |
351 |
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][7][12][9]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables