Metta

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Mette [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Mette

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mettuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Mettudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Metta
Genitive: Mettas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Metta
Accusative: Mettu
Dative: Mettu
Genitive: Mettu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Metta
Genitive: Metan
Partitive: Mettaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Metta
Accusative: Mettu
Dative: Mettu
Genitive: Mettu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Metta
Genitive: Mettas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Metta
Genitive: Mettas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

14 March

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

3 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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[9]
47 79 47 79 0 0
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
65
n.a.
65 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
23
n.a.
23
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
11 23
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
13
n.a.
13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
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. Swedish Regional Distribution for Metta (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  8. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/