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English holly = 'holly' (Lat. Ilex), evergreen shrub or tree (Middle English holi(n), Old English holegn)
In English-speaking countries it is bestowed especially on girls born around Christmas, when sprigs of holly are traditionally taken indoors to decorate rooms [1] [2]
Holly leaves Image by Frank Vincentz,[3] License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA |
Hollie | ♀ |
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Holly | ♀ |
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- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Holly |
Genitive: | Hollys |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Holly |
Genitive: | Hollyn |
Partitive: | Hollya |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Holly |
Genitive: | Hollys |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Holly |
Genitive: | Hollys |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[4] |
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776 | 904 | 776 | 899 | 0 | 5 |
Denmark[5] |
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218 | n.a. |
218 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Finland[6] |
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n.a. |
67 | n.a. |
67 | 0 | 0 |
Iceland[7] |
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4 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[8] |
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53 | n.a. |
53 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[9] |
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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. |