Nilla f

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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Nilla m for the male version.

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending in -nilla, -nille

2) Variant forms of Nelli and its variant forms

Related Names

Nilla	♀
Nille	♀
Nilly	♀

See also Nila, Nilda, Nilette

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Nilla
Genitive:	Nillas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Nilla
Genitive:	Nillan
Partitive:	Nillaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Nilla
Genitive:	Nillas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Nilla
Genitive:	Nillas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1625

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 18th - 19th century
  • 1900-1915
• Sweden:
  • -1899
  • 1910-1919
  • 1960-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
  • Halland (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (20th century)
  • Sydsverige
  • Gotland
• Norway:
  • Vestfold
  • Bergen

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 120 people were named Nilla f (percentage of first or only given name: 74 %)

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		376	623	376	623	0	0
Finland		n.a.	220	n.a.	170	n.a.	50
Denmark		20	n.a.	20	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		0	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		31	n.a.	31	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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend:

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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