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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of Isabella [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Pet form of Bergljot (see Bergljót) [5]
3) Latin and Italian bella = 'beautiful' [1] [2] [4] [5] [7]
4) Pet form of Berit [5]
5) Short form of Mirabella [8]
6) Short form of Belinda [8]
7) Short form of Amabel [8]
8) Pet form of Elisabeth [3]
9) Pet form of Barbara [3]
10) Short form of Arabella [8]
Related Names
See also Bela
Male
Belluson
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Female
Belludóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see BEL (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Bella
|
Genitive: |
Bellas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Bella
|
Genitive: |
Bellan
|
Partitive: |
Bellaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Bella
|
Accusative: |
Bellu
|
Dative: |
Bellu
|
Genitive: |
Bellu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Bella
|
Genitive: |
Bellas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Bella
|
Genitive: |
Bellas
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 39 people were named Bella (percentage of first or only given name: 51 %) [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[12] |
|
1787 |
2390 |
1785 |
2386 |
2 |
4 |
Denmark[13] |
|
595 |
n.a. |
595 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
679 |
n.a. |
679 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[15] |
|
34 |
216 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[16] |
|
10 |
27 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[17] |
|
281 |
n.a. |
281 |
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: [12][13][17][14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2023).
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no