Una f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Una m for the male version.

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of *UnR and its younger forms [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Sometimes also associated with Latin una = 'one' (see also Uno (2)) [3]

Related Names

Uhna
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Norwegian
Una
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish
Une
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Finish Norwegian Swedish
Uuna
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish

See also Unna

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Unuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Unudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Una
Genitive: Unas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Una
Accusative: Unu
Dative: Unu
Genitive: Unu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Una
Genitive: Unan
Partitive: Unaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Una
Accusative: Unu
Dative: Unu
Genitive: Unu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Una
Genitive: Unas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Una
Genitive: Unas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 167 people were named Una f (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %) [9]

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&
Iceland Iceland[11]
322 512
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
233 372 233 372 0 0
Denmark Denmark[13]
219
n.a.
219
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
0 409
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
121
n.a.
119
n.a.
2
Norway Norway[16]
796
n.a.
796
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[12][13][16][15]:Name statistics for Una (f)

Sources: [12] [13] [16] [15]

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  6. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no