Yrja

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Female Female Name

Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Yrjan and Yrjar (see Yrian) [1]

2) From Old Norse yrja = 'drizzling rain' [2]

3) Creative spelling of Irja [2]

Related Names

Yrja
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Yrjuson Iceland

Female

Yrjudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Yrja
Accusative: Yrju
Dative: Yrju
Genitive: Yrju
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Yrja
Genitive: Yrjas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Yrja
Genitive: Yrjas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

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[5]
21 34
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
13 17 13 17 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
50
n.a.
50
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
1
n.a.
1 0 0
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 Yrja.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  3. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  4. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  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. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/