Iðunn

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse variant form of Iðunnr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Iðunnr

Name Days

Faroe Islands

31 January

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Iðunn
Accusative:	Iðunni
Dative:	Iðunni
Genitive:	Iðunnar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Iðunn
Accusative:	Iðunn
Dative:	Iðunn
Genitive:	Iðunnar

Further Information

Mythology

Iðunn is an Ásynja, the goddess of youth. She is the wife of Bragi and they live in Brunnakr (Acre at a Well). ^{[5] [1]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[6]		3	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[7]		0	0	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	1	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Iðunn.

Sources: ^{[7] [6] [9] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no