Geira

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse variant spelling and younger form of GæiRa [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See GæiRa

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Geiruson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Geirudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Geira
Accusative: Geiru
Dative: Geiru
Genitive: Geiru
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Geira
Accusative: Geiru
Dative: Geiru
Genitive: Geiru
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Geira
Genitive: Geiras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Geira
Genitive: Geiras

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Period of Usage

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&
Sweden Sweden[8]
3 3 3 3 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
2
n.a.
2
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
3
n.a.
3 0 0
Norway Norway[12]
5
n.a.
5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Geira.


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/