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Linn

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Lina [1]

2) Short form of any name beginning with Lin- or ending with -lin [1] [2] [3]

3) Variant form of Lynn [2] [3]

Related Names

Lin ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Linn ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Lynn, Linna

Combinations

For combinations see LIN (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Linn
Genitive: Linns
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Linn
Genitive: Linnin
Partitive: Linniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Linn
Genitive: Linns
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Linn
Genitive: Linns

Name Days

Norway Norway

13 May

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

15 April

Sweden Sweden

13 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Norway:
    • 1851 (Aremark) [4]
    • 1866 (Nedre Eiker, Buskerud) [3]
    • ca 1940 (Oslo, Akershus) [1]

Strongest Period of Usage

Namesakes

  • Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann (born 9 August 1966), Norwegian author and journalist
  • Linn Skåber (born 31 March 1970), Norwegian actress, singer and comedian
  • Malin "Linn" Berggren (born 31 October 1970), Swedish singer, member of the Swedish band "Ace of Base"

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 Sweden[6]
11959 15597 11951 15585 8 12
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 722
n.a.
 722 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
281
n.a.
 280
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
8400
n.a.
 8400
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Linn (f) Sources: [6][8][11][7]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Linn (f) Sources: [12]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Linn (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  5. ↑ Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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