Yngva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Yngve (see Yngvi) [1] [2] [3]

2) Female form of Yngvar (see Ingvarr) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Ingva
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian Swedish
Yngva
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Yngva
Genitive: Yngvas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Yngva
Accusative: Yngvu
Dative: Yngvu
Genitive: Yngvu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Yngva
Genitive: Yngvas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Yngva
Genitive: Yngvas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Yngva (percentage of first or only given name: 57 %) [4]

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[5]
0 11 0 11 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
4
n.a.
4
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
2
n.a.
2 0 0
Norway Norway[8]
8
n.a.
8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Yngva.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/