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Female Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Short forms of Märeta and Merete (see Merete) [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Märta
|
Genitive: |
Märtas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Märta
|
Genitive: |
Märtan
|
Partitive: |
Märtaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Märta
|
Genitive: |
Märtas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Märta
|
Genitive: |
Märtas
|
Name Days
![Finland (Swedish Language)](https://www.nordicnames.de/img/flags/fi.png) Finland (Swedish Language)
|
26 August
|
Sweden
|
11 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Märta Berendes (21 January 1639 – 18 October 1717), Swedish Baroness and diary writer
- Märta Johanna Bucht (23 October 1882 - 1 November 1962), Swedish teacher and women's rights activist
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[5] |
|
7380 |
24215 |
7380 |
24211 |
0 |
4 |
Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
1337 |
n.a. |
1337 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[8] |
|
14 |
n.a. |
14 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [5][8][9][7]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [11]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Märta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables