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Samantha
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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
American name of debated origin
1) New combination (18th century) of Samuel and Anthea [1] [2] [3]
2) Variant form of Samanta [2]
Related Names
| Samanta | ♀ |   |
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| Samantha | ♀ |   |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Samantha |
| Genitive: | Samanthas |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Samantha |
| Genitive: | Samanthan |
| Partitive: | Samanthaa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Samantha |
| Genitive: | Samanthas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Samantha |
| Genitive: | Samanthas |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
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[4] |
|
764 | 1124 | 760 | 1101 | 4 | 23 |
| Denmark[5] |
|
373 | n.a. |
371 | n.a. |
2 | n.a. |
| Finland[6] |
 |
n.a. |
315 | n.a. |
315 | 0 | 0 |
 Iceland[7] |
  |
19 | 23 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
|
301 | n.a. |
301 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
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References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/