Dorotea

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Dorothea

Related Names

See Dorothea

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Doroteuson

Female

Doroteudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Dorotea
Genitive:	Doroteas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Dorotea
Accusative:	Doroteu
Dative:	Doroteu
Genitive:	Doroteu

- Finnish
Nominative:	Dorotea
Genitive:	Dorotean
Partitive:	Doroteaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Dorotea
Genitive:	Doroteas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Dorotea
Genitive:	Doroteas

Name Days

Faroe Islands

6 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 February

Sweden

6 February

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1419
• Norway: ca 1500

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1929
  • 1885-1909

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Jämtland (19th century) see map
  • Östsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 6972 people were named Dorotea (percentage of first or only given name: 5 %)

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		168	1620	168	1620	0	0
Finland		n.a.	278	n.a.	278	0	0
Denmark		8	n.a.	8	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		19	n.a.	19	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Dorotea (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.