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Oiva

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish oiva = 'excellent', 'splendid' [1] [2]

Related Names

Oippo ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Oitsa ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Oiva ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Oivi ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Ope ♂
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 Oikki, Oivikki

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Oiva
Genitive: Oivan
Partitive: Oivaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Oiva
Genitive: Oivas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Oiva
Genitive: Oivas

Name Day

Finland Finland

29 May

Further Information

Until the 1930s, Oiva was sometimes used as a female name but todays it is a male name [3]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden (male usage): In January 1973, 79 people were named Oiva (percentage of first or only given name: 71 %) [4]

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&
Finland Finland[3]
n.a.
 14797
n.a.
 183
n.a.
 14614
Sweden Sweden[5]
93 179 0 2 93 177
Denmark Denmark[6]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 5
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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 Oiva.


References

  1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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