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Tania
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Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Creative spelling (Italian) of Tanja [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Tanja
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Tania |
| Genitive: | Tanias |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Tania |
| Genitive: | Tanian |
| Partitive: | Taniaa |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Tania |
| Genitive: | Tanias |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Tania |
| Genitive: | Tanias |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Norway: 1845 (Øyestad, Aust-Agder) [5]
- Iceland: Officially rejected as a given name on 28 May 2004 [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Karen ('Tanne' / 'Tania') Christentze Blixen, Danish author (1885 - 1962) - In her case, Tanne was her childhood nickname, probably because she mispronounced her name Karen Christentze, and later she was called Tania after the fairy queen in Shakespeare's Midsummernight Dream (Titania).
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 17 people were named Tania (percentage of first or only given name: 65 %) [7]
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[8] |
  |
574 | 687 | 574 | 687 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[9] |
 |
669 | n.a. |
668 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
| Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
267 | n.a. |
267 | 0 | 0 |
 Iceland[11] |
  |
18 | 20 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
|
177 | n.a. |
177 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[13] |
  |
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
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/