Agneta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Agnes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Agneeta
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Finish
Agneta
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Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Agnéta Swedish
Agnete
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Danish Finish Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Agneté Swedish
Agneth Swedish
Agnetha
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Agnethe
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Danish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Agnetta Swedish
Agnette
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Agnetæ
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Old Swedish
Akneeta
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Finish
Akneetta
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Angneta
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Old Swedish Swedish
Angnetha
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Old Swedish Swedish

See also Agna, Agnita, Agny, Aunetta, Neta

For male forms see Agneton, Agnetus

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Agnetuson Iceland

Female

Agnetudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Agneta
Genitive: Agnetas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Agneta
Genitive: Agnetan
Partitive: Agnetaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Agneta
Accusative: Agnetu
Dative: Agnetu
Genitive: Agnetu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Agneta
Genitive: Agnetas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Agneta
Genitive: Agnetas

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

21 January

Sweden Sweden

21 January

Further Information

Pronunciation

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Agneta Birgitta Klingspor (4 January 1946 – 2 June 2022), Swedish author

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 33,778 people were named Agneta (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [11]

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[14]
17318 33077 17318 33077 0 0
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
2392
n.a.
2392 0 0
Denmark Denmark[16]
44
n.a.
44
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
3 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
98
n.a.
98
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[19]
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 Agneta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Agneta (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  7. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  13. 13.0 13.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/