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Kaja

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Kajsa [1]

2) Variant spelling of Kaia [2] [3] [4] [5]

3) Swedish kaja = 'jackdaw' (bird)

4) Variant spelling of Kaija [3]

Jackdaw
Jackdaw
Image by 'Nottsexminer',[6]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Caja ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Kaja ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Kaya ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Kayah ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Faroese Swedish
Kæja ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

See also Kajana

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kajuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Kajudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kaja
Genitive: Kajas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Kaja
Accusative: Kaju
Dative: Kaju
Genitive: Kaju
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kaja
Genitive: Kajan
Partitive: Kajaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kaja
Accusative: Kaju
Dative: Kaju
Genitive: Kaju
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kaja
Genitive: Kajas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kaja
Genitive: Kajas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 42 people were named Kaja (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [9]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[10]
1375
n.a.
 1375
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
149 183 147 180 2 3
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 262
n.a.
 262 0 0
Iceland Iceland[13]
31 43
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
19 34
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
4227
n.a.
 4227
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Kaja (f) Sources: [11][10][15][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Kaja (f) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Kaja (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by 'Nottsexminer', source & license
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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