Hilkka

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) The name might be related to the fairy tale Rotkäppchen by the brothers Grimm (English: Little Red Riding Hood), which is called Punahilkka in Finnish

Finnish hilkka = 'hood, cap' [1] [2] [3]

2) Variant form of Hilla

3) Dialectal pet form (Itä-Suomi) of Hilja [2]

Related Names

Hikka
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Finish
Hilká
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Sami
Hilkka
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Hilkko
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Finish
Hilkku
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Finish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hilkka
Genitive: Hilkkas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hilkka
Genitive: Hilkan
Partitive: Hilkkaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hilkka
Genitive: Hilkkas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hilkka
Genitive: Hilkkas

Name Day

Finland Finland

27 November

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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&
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
30578
n.a.
30578 0 0
Sweden Sweden[5]
621 823 621 823 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
5
n.a.
5
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
11
n.a.
11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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 Hilkka.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/