Abela

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Low German variant form of Apollonia [1] [2]

2) Short form of names containing the Old Saxon name element AVAL [1]

3) Low German short form of names containing the first element ADAL and a second name element beginning with B- [1] [2]

Related Names

Abbelle
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Swedish
Abel
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
Abela
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic Old Swedish Swedish
Abele
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Swedish
Abella
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Swedish

See also Abelina, Abelke, Abla, Bela

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Abeluson Iceland

Female

Abeludóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Abela
Accusative: Abelu
Dative: Abelu
Genitive: Abelu
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Abela
Genitive: Abelas

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: ['ɑ:bəla] (key) [3]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 48 people were named Abela (percentage of first or only given name: 60 %) [6]

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[8]
3 12 3 12 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[13]
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  3. Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  4. Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/