Kaia

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Pet form of e.g. Karen and Katrine and other variant forms of Katharina ^{[1] [2]}

2) Variant spelling of Kaja and Kaija ^[3]

3) Estonian short form of Katarina ^[4]

Related Names

See Kajsa

Name Days

Faroe Islands

14 October

Norway

14 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Kaia
Accusative:	Kaiu
Dative:	Kaiu
Genitive:	Kaiu

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		627	958	0	0
Denmark[6]		79	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[7]		20	25	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	39	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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[7][6][5][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
4. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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