Petrea

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Petra

Related Names

See Petra

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Petreuson

Female

Petreudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Petrea
Genitive:	Petreas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Petrea
Genitive:	Petrean
Partitive:	Petreaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Petrea
Accusative:	Petreu
Dative:	Petreu
Genitive:	Petreu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Petrea
Genitive:	Petreas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Petrea
Genitive:	Petreas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1762
• Norway: 18th century
• Denmark: 19th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • -1960

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Troms
• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Nordjylland

Namesakes

• Petrea is a character in the novel 'Hemmet' (1839) by the Swedish author Fredrika Bremer

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		169	n.a.	168	n.a.	1	n.a.
Sweden		23	102	23	102	0	0
Iceland		31	57	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	4	n.a.	4	0	0
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		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 Petrea.