Josefa

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Josepha

Related Names

See Josepha

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Josefa
Genitive:	Josefas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Josefa
Genitive:	Josefan
Partitive:	Josefaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Josefa
Genitive:	Josefas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Josefa
Genitive:	Josefas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 19th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • -1920
• Norway:
  • 1890-1925
  • 1900-1915

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Nordland
• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
• Sweden:
  • Västergötland (19th century) see map
  • Småland (19th century) see map

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		53	185	53	183	0	2
Finland		n.a.	84	n.a.	84	0	0
Denmark		23	n.a.	23	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		27	n.a.	27	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Josefa (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.