Navagiaĸ

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Usage

Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Greenlandic name meaning 'the one who travelled from place to place'

The stem nava- is ancient and has to do with 'exchange', 'moving from place to place', whilst the ending -giaq suggests the meaning 'travel' or 'is out' [1]

Related Names

Navagiaĸ
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Greenlandic
Navagiaq
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Greenlandic

See also
Navak
Navalik
Navaluk
Navarana

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Greenlandic Mythology

  • The legend of Navagiaĸ, which is the source of the name, is a so-called transmigrational myth where the main character dies, but travels from animal to animal as a spirit until it is finally caught and takes its abode inside a woman and become born among the human beings, and is named Navagiaĸ because of this process [1]

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[2]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[3]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[4]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[6]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Navagiaĸ.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Greenland Language Secretariat Oqaasileriffik http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/kl
  2. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  3. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  4. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/