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Usage
Old Norse
Swedish
Icelandic
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Norse name deriving from Ancient Germanic *nanþi- = 'bold, daring' (see NAND) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
2) Pet form of Anna [1] [2] [7] [4]
3) Pet form of Johanna [1] [2] [7] [3]
4) Pet form of Amanda [1] [7]
5) Pet form of Marianne [7]
6) Swedish nanna (dial.) = 'mummy' [3] [8]
7) Pet form of Andrea [8]
Related Names
See also Nan, Nana, Nanni and Nenna and Nonne
For male forms see Nanne m
Male
Nannuson
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Nönnuson
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Female
Nannudóttir
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Nönnudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see NAND (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Nanna
|
Genitive: |
Nannas
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Nanna
|
Accusative: |
Nannu
|
Dative: |
Nannu
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Genitive: |
Nannu
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Nanna
|
Genitive: |
Nannan
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Partitive: |
Nannaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Nanna
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Accusative: |
Nönnu
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Dative: |
Nönnu
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Genitive: |
Nönnu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Nanna
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Genitive: |
Nannas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Nanna
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Genitive: |
Nannas
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Name Days
Finland
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9 July
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Norway
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4 April
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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9 July
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Sweden
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3 April
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Norse Mythology
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 3,893 people were named Nanna (percentage of first or only given name: 83 %) [12]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[16] |
|
12665 |
n.a. |
12665 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[17] |
|
920 |
2485 |
920 |
2481 |
0 |
4 |
Finland[18] |
|
n.a. |
1382 |
n.a. |
1382 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[19] |
|
298 |
387 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[20] |
|
53 |
88 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[21] |
|
624 |
n.a. |
624 |
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: [17][16][21][18]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [22]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Nanna (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables