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Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse name of uncertain meaning [1] [2] [3]
Theories include:
1) Younger variant form of Ýrr [4] [5] [6]
2) From an Ancient Norse unknown word for 'she-bear' with the same roots as Latin ursus (see also Ursula, which is used as a Latinisation of Yrsa as well) (unlikely!) [7] [8] [9] [3]
Related Names
Male
Yrsuson
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Female
Yrsudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Yrsa
|
Genitive: |
Yrsas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Yrsa
|
Accusative: |
Yrsu
|
Dative: |
Yrsu
|
Genitive: |
Yrsu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Yrsa
|
Genitive: |
Yrsan
|
Partitive: |
Yrsaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Yrsa
|
Accusative: |
Yrsu
|
Dative: |
Yrsu
|
Genitive: |
Yrsu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Yrsa
|
Genitive: |
Yrsas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Yrsa
|
Genitive: |
Yrsas
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Name Days
![Finland (Swedish Language)](https://www.nordicnames.de/img/flags/fi.png) Finland (Swedish Language)
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7 August
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Sweden
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21 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 162 people were named Yrsa (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [12]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[13] |
|
916 |
n.a. |
916 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[14] |
|
249 |
386 |
249 |
386 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[15] |
|
65 |
99 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[16] |
|
n.a. |
162 |
n.a. |
162 |
0 |
0 |
Norway[17] |
|
16 |
n.a. |
16 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[18] |
|
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [14][13][17][16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/