Ester

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Sami

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Esther ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Esther

Name Days

Faroe Islands

24 May

Finland

16 May

Norway

24 May

Sami

16 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

16 May

Sweden

31 March

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ester
Accusative:	Ester
Dative:	Ester
Genitive:	Esterar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ester
Accusative:	Ester
Dative:	Ester
Genitive:	Esterar

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		4964	13451	1	3
Denmark[5]		2620	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		1148	2307	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	27186	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. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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