Karita

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Carita

Related Names

See Carita

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Karituson

Female

Karitudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Karita
Genitive:	Karitas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Karita
Accusative:	Karitu
Dative:	Karitu
Genitive:	Karitu

- Finnish
Nominative:	Karita
Genitive:	Karitan
Partitive:	Karitaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Karita
Genitive:	Karitas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Karita
Genitive:	Karitas

Name Day

Finland

17 February

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 1824
• Norway: 1854

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1940-1969
• Norway: 1990-2005

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Sogn og Fjordane
• Sweden:
  • Dalarna
  • Nordsverige

Namesakes

• Karita Bekkemellem (born 15 January 1965), Norwegian politician

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 155 people were named Karita (percentage of first or only given name: 36 %)

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		n.a.	2752	n.a.	2752	0	0
Sweden		119	274	119	274	0	0
Denmark		5	n.a.	5	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		105	n.a.	105	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Karita.