Alfa

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Alf ^{[1] [2]}

2) Nordic spelling of Alpha ^[1]

Related Names

Alfa	♀
Alfie	♀
Alpha	♀

See also Alfina

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

31 January

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Alfa
Accusative:	Ölfu
Dative:	Ölfu
Genitive:	Ölfu

Further Information

Period of Usage

Norway: around 1900 until ca. 1945 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		54	123	4	11
Denmark[4]		54	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		11	30	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	113	n.a	5
#: 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 Alfa.

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi