Erna

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Ernesta and Ernestina ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Variant spelling of Ärna ^{[1] [2] [4]}

3) Old Norse ern = 'hale, hearty, healthy' ^[4]

Related Names

Erna	♀
Ärna	♀

See also Erner, Ärne

Name Days

Faroe Islands

2 March

Norway

2 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 September

Sweden

2 March

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Erna
Accusative:	Ernu
Dative:	Ernu
Genitive:	Ernu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Erna
Accusative:	Ernu
Dative:	Ernu
Genitive:	Ernu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1697 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		4770	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		1624	2996	0	0
Norway[7]		1316	3013	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	821	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^[6][5][7][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi