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Melba
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Usage
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of the place name Melbourne in Australia which was used as a surname by the Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell for her stage name "Nellie Melba" (1861-1931) [1] [2] [3]
The port town Melbourne in southeast Australia is the capital of Victoria and the country's second largest city. It was named in 1837 in honour of William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), the British prime minister. The minister's own title comes from his seat, Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire. [4]
The place name Melbourne means 'middle stream': Old English middel (replaced by Old Norse meðal) = 'middle' and Old English burna = 'stream' [5]
Related Names
| Melba | ♀ |   |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Melba |
| Genitive: | Melbas |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Melba |
| Genitive: | Melban |
| Partitive: | Melbaa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Melba |
| Genitive: | Melbas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Melba |
| Genitive: | Melbas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Period of Usage
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
| 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[6] |
 |
27 | 34 | 27 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[7] |
|
14 | n.a. |
14 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
 |
n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway[9] |
|
9 | n.a. |
9 | n.a. |
n.a. |
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Melba.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
- ↑ P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson: Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (2005)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/