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Iona
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Origin and Meaning
Scottish name derived from the name of the island in the Inner Hebrides [1] [2]
The place name derives from Old Irish eo = (place of) 'yew trees' [3]
Related Names
| Iona | ♀ |   |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Iona |
| Genitive: | Ionas |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Iona |
| Genitive: | Ionan |
| Partitive: | Ionaa |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Iona |
| Genitive: | Ionas |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Iona |
| Genitive: | Ionas |
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[4] |
 |
34 | 79 | 32 | 77 | 2 | 2 |
| Finland[5] |
 |
n.a. |
70 | n.a. |
70 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[6] |
|
24 | n.a. |
24 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Greenland[7] |
  |
0 | 19 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[8] |
  |
0 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
|
26 | n.a. |
26 | 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Iona.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ A. D. Mills: Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no