Vala

From Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Nameguide note desktop.png

Nameguide note mobile.png

Rate this name:

5.00
(4 votes)



Female Female Name

Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

Advertisement:


Origin and Meaning

1) Swedish vala, völva (Old Norse vǫlva) = 'fortune teller, prophet', a younger form of Vǫlva [1]

2) Short form of names containing the name element VAL (see Váli) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Vala
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Völuson Iceland

Female

Völudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Vala
Genitive: Valas
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Vala
Accusative: Völu
Dative: Völu
Genitive: Völu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Vala
Genitive: Valas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Vala
Genitive: Valas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[5]
186 480
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
21 37 17 31 4 6
Denmark Denmark[7]
16
n.a.
16
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
2
n.a.
2 0 0
Norway Norway[9]
19
n.a.
19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Vala.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/