Adina

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Latin spelling of the Hebrew name עֲדִינָה ('Adinah); Hebrew adin = 'pretty, delicate, slim' ^[1]

2) Pet form of Ada ^[1]

3) Pet form of Adriana (see Adrianus)

Related Names

Adina	♀
Adine	♀

See also Dina and Edna

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1760 ^[2]

Bible

Adina was a male name, but because of the ending -a it is merely used as a female name in Scandinavia

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		564	1473	0	0
Norway[4]		73	112	0	0
Denmark[5]		62	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	500	0	0
#: 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^[3][5][4][6]:

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi