Arna

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Female form of Arni ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Arni

Name Days

Norway

4 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

16 November

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Arna
Accusative:	Arnu
Dative:	Arnu
Genitive:	Arnu

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Arna
Accusative:	Örnu
Dative:	Örnu
Genitive:	Örnu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 13th century ^[2]
Finland: 1892 (in modern times) ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Vest-Agder ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		299	763	0	0
Sweden[5]		55	98	1	1
Denmark[6]		44	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	79	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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

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