Hedda

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Heda (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

Hedda
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Heddi
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Heddy
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Hetta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hedduson Iceland

Female

Heddudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hedda
Genitive: Heddas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hedda
Genitive: Heddan
Partitive: Heddaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Hedda
Accusative: Heddu
Dative: Heddu
Genitive: Heddu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hedda
Genitive: Heddas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hedda
Genitive: Heddas

Name Days

Norway Norway

15 October

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

15 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Norway: 'Hedda Gabler' is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
  • Sweden: In January 1973, 537 people were named Hedda (percentage of first or only given name: 81 %) [8]

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[10]
3453 4001 3453 4001 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
130
n.a.
130
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
210
n.a.
210 0 0
Iceland Iceland[13]
1 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
5965
n.a.
5965
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 Hedda (f) Sources: [10][11][14][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Hedda (f) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Hedda (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Hedda (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Hedda (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  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. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  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/
  16. details see Name Statistic tables