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Alba

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Alberta and variant forms [1]

2) Latin alba = 'white' (Female form of Albus and Albinus/Latin translation of Blanca) [1] [2] [3] [4]

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3) Female form of Albo [4]

Related Names

Alba ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ölbuson Iceland

Female

Ölbudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Albas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Alban
Partitive: Albaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Alba
Accusative: Ölbu
Dative: Ölbu
Genitive: Ölbu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Albas
Sweden - 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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[7]
1861
n.a.
 1859
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
990 1310 990 1308 0 2
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 251
n.a.
 251 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
33 68
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Alba (f) Sources: [8][7][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Alba (f) Sources: [13]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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