Diana

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Roman name of uncertain etymology, maybe a short form of Diviana which is related to deus = 'God' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Related Names

Diana	♀
Díana	♀
Diane	♀
Dianna	♀
Dianne	♀

Name Days

Norway

30 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

16 October

Sweden

29 January

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Diana
Accusative:	Dianu
Dative:	Dianu
Genitive:	Dianu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1791 ^[5]

Roman Mythology

Diana is the name of the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, equivalent to the Greek goddess Artemis ^{[4] [6] [5]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		4379	7264	0	0
Denmark[8]		3607	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[9]		508	830	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	1454	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]}:

Sources: ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
5. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
6. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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