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Nanna

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

Nanna ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Nánná ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Sami
Nannah ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Nanne ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Nannu ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also Nan, Nana, Nanni and Nenna and Nonne

For male forms see Nanne m

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nannuson Faroe Islands
Nönnuson Iceland

Female

Nannudóttir Faroe Islands
Nönnudóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see NAND (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nanna
Genitive: Nannas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Nanna
Accusative: Nannu
Dative: Nannu
Genitive: Nannu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Nanna
Genitive: Nannan
Partitive: Nannaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Nanna
Accusative: Nönnu
Dative: Nönnu
Genitive: Nönnu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nanna
Genitive: Nannas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nanna
Genitive: Nannas

Name Days

Finland Finland

9 July

Norway Norway

4 April

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

9 July

Sweden Sweden

3 April

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

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&
Denmark Denmark[16]
12665
n.a.
 12665
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[17]
920 2485 920 2481 0 4
Finland Finland[18]
n.a.
 1382
n.a.
 1382 0 0
Iceland Iceland[19]
298 387
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[20]
53 88
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Nanna (f) Sources: [17][16][21][18]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Nanna (f) Sources: [22]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Nanna (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  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 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 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
  15. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  19. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  20. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  22. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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