Penelope

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Πηνελοπη (Penelope), a Greek name possibly derived from Greek πηνελοψ (pēnelops) = 'duck' (bird) [1]

Ducks
Ducks
Image by Diliff,[2]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Penelope
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

See also Penny

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Penelope
Genitive: Penelopes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Penelope
Genitive: Penelopen
Partitive: Penelopea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Penelope
Genitive: Penelopes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Penelope
Genitive: Penelopes

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Greek Mythology

In Homer's epic the 'Odyssey' Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, who sat patiently awaiting his return for twenty years, meanwhile, as a supposed widow, fending off by persuasion and guile a pressing horde of suitors for her hand in marriage.

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 14 people were named Penelope (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %) [3]

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[4]
102 233 102 233 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
120
n.a.
120
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
101
n.a.
101 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
55
n.a.
55
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Penelope.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Wikimedia Commons: Image by Diliff, source & license
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/