Iris

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Greek ἴρις (iris) = 'rainbow' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

The name is often associated with the membrane in the eye and the genus of flowering plants which derive their names from the same Greek source. ^{[4] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Iikku	♀
Iiri	♀
Iiris	♀
Iris	♀
Íris	♀

See also Irkka

Name Days

Faroe Islands

24 May

Norway

24 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

14 November

Sweden

10 February

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Iris
Accusative:	Irisi
Dative:	Irisi
Genitive:	Irisar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Iris
Accusative:	Iris
Dative:	Iris
Genitive:	Irisar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Finland: 1843 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		5360	10075	5	8
Denmark[8]		1073	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[9]		640	1284	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	3917	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^{[7][8][9][10]}:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[9]:

Sources: ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
4. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
6. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi