Ebba

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Eyba and Ybba ^[1]

2) Female form of Ebbe ^{[1] [2] [3]}

3) Pet form of Elisabet ^[3]

Related Names

Ebba	♀

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

13 October

Sweden

6 March

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ebba
Accusative:	Ebbu
Dative:	Ebbu
Genitive:	Ebbu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ebba
Accusative:	Ebbu
Dative:	Ebbu
Genitive:	Ebbu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1442 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂		Trend
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		15624	24197	1	1
Denmark[5]		2019	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		233	511	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	2108	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^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

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