Anka

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Low German diminutive form of Anna (variant form of Anke) ^[1]

2) Slavic diminutive form of Anna ^{[1] [2]}

3) Short form of Annkatrin and its variants ^[2]

Related Names

Anka	♀

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Nord-Noreg ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		103	130	0	0
Denmark[4]		39	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		15	19	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	2	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Anka.

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

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
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