Alida

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Dutch form of Adelheid (see Adalhaid) ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Alida	♀
Alída	♀
Aliida	♀
Alyda	♀

See also Lida

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1635 ^[1]

Period of Usage

Norway: most common in the 18th and 19th century, rarely used after 1925 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		271	433	0	0
Sweden[4]		266	1161	0	0
Denmark[5]		45	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	277	n.a	2
#: 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^[4][5][3][6]:

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

References

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