Edda

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse edda = 'great-grandmother' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Variant form of Eda

Related Names

Edda	♀

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Edda
Accusative:	Eddu
Dative:	Eddu
Genitive:	Eddu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Edda
Accusative:	Eddu
Dative:	Eddu
Genitive:	Eddu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1839 ^[3]

Mythology

Edda is the name of a woman in the Eddic lay "Rígsþula" ^{[2] [3]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		143	214	0	0
Denmark[5]		141	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		103	176	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	47	n.a	3
#: 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 Edda.

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

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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