Dorthea

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Dortea

Related Names

See Dortea

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Dorthea
Genitive:	Dortheas

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Dorthea
Genitive:	Dortheas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Dorthea
Genitive:	Dortheas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: post medieval

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • -1949
• Sweden:
  • -1899
  • 1910-1929

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Sønderjylland
  • Bornholm
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Östsverige
  • Dalarna

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 52 people were named Dorthea (percentage of first or only given name: 15 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Denmark		409	n.a.	409	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		35	136	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		3	54	3	54	0	0
Finland		n.a.	5	n.a.	5	0	0
Iceland		0	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		298	n.a.	298	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend