Alma

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Finland Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Latin almus = 'nourishing, kind' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Short form of Germanic names starting with Amal-, especially Amalia, see name element AMAL [1] [2] [3] [4] [6]

3) Spanish alma = 'soul' [1]

Related Names

     
Álbma ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Alma ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Almi ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish Swedish

See also Almar, Almina and Elma

Name Days

Finland Finland

28 May

Norway Norway

8 September

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

28 May

Sweden Sweden

8 September

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Alma
Accusative: Almu
Dative: Almu
Genitive: Almu
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Alma
Accusative: Ölmu
Dative: Ölmu
Genitive: Ölmu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1724 [1] [6]

Strongest Period of Usage

Sweden: 1885-1909 and 2000-? [6]

Namesakes

Alma Söderhjelm (10 May 1870 – 16 March 1949), Swedish-speaking Finnish historian and the first female professor in Finland

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[7] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m0.png 6486 10569 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 2600 n.a. 0 n.a
Norway Norway[9] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 761 1322 0 0
Finland Finland[10] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 14149 n.a 1
  #: 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[7][8][9][10]:Name statistics for Alma(f)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[9]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Alma(f)


Sources: [7] [8] [9] [10]

References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. ↑ Evan Bogan: Navnebogen (2005)
  6. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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