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Tekla

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Thekla [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Thekla

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Tekluson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Tekludóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Tekla
Genitive: Teklas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Tekla
Accusative: Teklu
Dative: Teklu
Genitive: Teklu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Tekla
Genitive: Teklan
Partitive: Teklaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Tekla
Accusative: Teklu
Dative: Teklu
Genitive: Teklu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Tekla
Genitive: Teklas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Tekla
Genitive: Teklas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

23 September

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

24 September

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

23 September

Sweden Sweden

23 September

The different Faroese name days come from different sources:

23rd September - Arni Dahl [2]

24th September - Axel Tórgarð [8]

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 4,153 people were named Tekla (percentage of first or only given name: 83 %) [10]

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[13]
317 1013 317 1011 0 2
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
 1497
n.a.
 1497 0 0
Denmark Denmark[15]
61
n.a.
 61
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
16 31
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
7 42
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
15
n.a.
 15
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Tekla (f) Sources: [13][15][18][14]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Tekla (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Tekla (f)


References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Axel Tórgarð: Dagar og nøvn í álmanakkanum (2008)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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