Kamma

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Danish name

1) New combination of names beginning with Ka-, especially Karen and Katharina (see KA), and names beginning with Ma-, especially Maria (see MARI) and Margareta (see MARG) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Pet form of Kamilla (see Camilla) [1] [2]

Related Names

Camma
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish
Kamma
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 Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Kemma

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kammuson Faroe Islands
Kömmuson Iceland

Female

Kammudóttir Faroe Islands
Kömmudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kamma
Genitive: Kammas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Kamma
Accusative: Kammu
Dative: Kammu
Genitive: Kammu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kamma
Genitive: Kamman
Partitive: Kammaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kamma
Accusative: Kömmu
Dative: Kömmu
Genitive: Kömmu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kamma
Genitive: Kammas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kamma
Genitive: Kammas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Karen Margrethe "Kamma" Rahbek (née Heger, 19 October 1775 – 21 January 1829), Danish artist

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 32 people were named Kamma (percentage of first or only given name: 75 %) [8]

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[9]
1348
n.a.
1348
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[10]
14 27 14 27 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
3 35
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
7 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
16
n.a.
16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
1
n.a.
1 0 0
  #: 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 Kamma.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi