Selda

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Short form (English) of Griselda [1]

Related Names

Selda
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
Sellda Swedish
Zelda
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
Zhelda Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Selda
Genitive: Seldas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Selda
Genitive: Seldan
Partitive: Seldaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Selda
Genitive: Seldas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Selda
Genitive: Seldas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden: 1866 (Stora Åby, Östergötland) [2]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 83 people were named Selda (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [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]
147 179 147 179 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
99
n.a.
99
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
45
n.a.
45 0 0
Norway Norway[7]
82
n.a.
82
n.a.
n.a.
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 Selda.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 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. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/