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Maja

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Nordic and Frisian pet form of Maria [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Swedish pet form of Margit [1]

3) Swedish and Frisian pet form of Marit [1] [5]

4) Swedish maj = 'May' [1] [2] [7]

5) Latin / Greek maia = 'little mother' [8]

6) Latin mái- = 'great' [9]

7) Swedish and Frisian pet form of Marina [5]

8) Sanskrit माया (Maya) = 'illusion', a name of an Indian goddess [7]

Related Names

Maia ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Maía ♀
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 Icelandic
Maie ♀
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 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Maija ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Máijá ♀
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 Sami
Máijjá ♀
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 Sami
Maiju ♀
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 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Maijuska ♀
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 Finish
Maja ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Maje ♀
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Májjá ♀
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 Sami
Majus ♀
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 Sami
Maya ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Mæja ♀
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 Icelandic

See also Maj, Majen, Majsa

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Majuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Majudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see MAJ (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Maja
Genitive: Majas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Maja
Accusative: Maju
Dative: Maju
Genitive: Maju
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Maja
Genitive: Majan
Partitive: Majaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Maja
Accusative: Maju
Dative: Maju
Genitive: Maju
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Maja
Genitive: Majas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Maja
Genitive: Majas

Name Day

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

2 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Maja Lunde (born 30 July 1975), Norwegian writer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 5628 people were named Maja (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [12]

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[14]
19236 26680 19232 26673 4 7
Denmark Denmark[15]
13331
n.a.
 13329
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Finland Finland[16]
n.a.
 729
n.a.
 729 0 0
Iceland Iceland[17]
141 184
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
81 122
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[19]
5849
n.a.
 5849
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 Maja (f) Sources: [14][15][19][16]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Maja (f) Sources: [20]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Maja (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Maja (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Maja (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  9. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  17. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  20. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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