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Edda

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse edda = 'great-grandmother' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) German variant form of Eda [1] [5] [6]

Related Names

Edda ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Edduson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Eddudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Edda
Genitive: Eddas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Edda
Accusative: Eddu
Dative: Eddu
Genitive: Eddu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edda
Genitive: Eddan
Partitive: Eddaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Edda
Accusative: Eddu
Dative: Eddu
Genitive: Eddu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edda
Genitive: Eddas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edda
Genitive: Eddas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Norse Mythology

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 69 people were named Edda (percentage of first or only given name: 81 %) [9]
  • Edda is also used as an Icelandic horse name
  • Edda was a heavy storm in Norway in December 2003.

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&
Iceland Iceland[10]
758 1226
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
773 917 773 917 0 0
Denmark Denmark[12]
149
n.a.
 149
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 107
n.a.
 107 0 0
Norway Norway[14]
259
n.a.
 259
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Edda (f) Sources: [11][12][14][13]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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