Amma

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Greenland Greenlandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Old Norse names beginning with Arn- or Am- (see ARN) [1]

2) Old Swedish amma = 'wet nurse' [1]

3) Old Norse amma = 'grandmother' [1]

4) Old Norse ama/amma = 'dark one' [2]

5) Greenlandic younger spelling of Áma (see Ama) [3]

6) German pet form of names beginning with Amal- (see also AMAL) [4]

7) German pet form of names containing a first element ADAL and a last element beginning with M- [4]

Related Names

Ama
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Amma
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish

See also Áma, Ammi

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Amma
Genitive: Ammas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Amma
Genitive: Amman
Partitive: Ammaa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Amma
Genitive: Ammas

Further Information

Norse Mythology

1) Amma is the wife of Afi in the Rígsþula

2) Amma is also the name of a giantess in the Þulur [2]

Trivia

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&
Greenland Greenland[5]
0 44
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[6]
10
n.a.
10
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
0 17 0 14 0 3
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
8
n.a.
8 0 0
Norway Norway[9]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Amma.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  3. The Greenland Language Secretariat Oqaasileriffik http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/kl
  4. 4.0 4.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no