Anja

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Аня (Anya), a Russian diminutive form of Anna ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Ania	♀
Anja	♀
Anjukka	♀
Anjuska	♀
Annia	♀
Annía	♀
Annja	♀
Annya	♀
Anya	♀
Nanja	♀

Name Days

Finland

22 October

Norway

10 July

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Anja
Accusative:	Anju
Dative:	Anju
Genitive:	Anju

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Anja
Accusative:	Önju
Dative:	Önju
Genitive:	Önju

Further Information

Namesakes

Anja Sofia Tess Pärson, Swedish alpine skier, * 25th April, 1981

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		10552	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[5]		3728	4941	1	1
Norway[6]		2252	3465	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	37032	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^[5][4][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

Sources: ^{[5] [4] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi