Leah

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling (English) of Lea

Related Names

See Lea

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Leah
Genitive:	Leahs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Leah
Genitive:	Leahin
Partitive:	Leahia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Leah
Genitive:	Leahs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Leah
Genitive:	Leahs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland:
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 4 November 2009
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 16 October 2018
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 19 January 2021
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 6 December 2023

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1970-
• Norway: 2005-

Namesakes

• Leah Isadora Behn (born 8 April 2005), daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

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		3160	3694	3160	3694	0	0
Denmark		728	n.a.	728	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	241	n.a.	241	0	0
Iceland		6	9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		5	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		3998	n.a.	3998	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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