Metta

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Mette

Related Names

See Mette

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mettuson

Female

Mettudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Metta
Genitive:	Mettas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Metta
Accusative:	Mettu
Dative:	Mettu
Genitive:	Mettu

- Finnish
Nominative:	Metta
Genitive:	Metan
Partitive:	Mettaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Metta
Accusative:	Mettu
Dative:	Mettu
Genitive:	Mettu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Metta
Genitive:	Mettas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Metta
Genitive:	Mettas

Name Days

Faroe Islands

14 March

Faroe Islands

3 October

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1334

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Vestlandet
• Sweden: Skåne (19th century) see map

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		47	79	47	79	0	0
Finland		n.a.	65	n.a.	65	0	0
Denmark		23	n.a.	23	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		11	23	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		13	n.a.	13	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Metta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.