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Athena

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Αθηνα (Athena), the name of the Greek goddess of wisdom of uncertain meaning [1] [2] [3]

Some theories (although the name is almost certainly of pre-Greek origin [2]) are:

1. Greek a thuntos = 'immortal' [2]

2. Greek a tithene = 'not nursed (by a mother)' [2]

3. Greek αθηρ αινη (ather aine) = 'sharp praise' [4]

Related Names

Atena ♀
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Athena ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Athene ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Athina ♀
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Aþena ♀
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 Icelandic

For male forms see Athen

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Athenuson Iceland

Female

Athenudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Athena
Genitive: Athenas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Athena
Genitive: Athenan
Partitive: Athenaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Athena
Accusative: Athenu
Dative: Athenu
Genitive: Athenu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Athena
Genitive: Athenas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Athena
Genitive: Athenas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Namesakes

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&
Sweden Sweden[7]
321 680 321 676 0 4
Denmark Denmark[8]
269
n.a.
 269
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 78
n.a.
 78 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
22 29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
6 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
127
n.a.
 127
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 Athena (f) Sources: [7][8][12][9]


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. ↑ Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.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
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