Katja

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Катя (Katya), a Russian pet form of Jekaterina [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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See also Katinka, Katjana

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Katjuson Faroe Islands

Female

Katjudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Katja
Genitive: Katjas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Katja
Accusative: Katju
Dative: Katju
Genitive: Katju
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Katja
Genitive: Katjan
Partitive: Katjaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Katja
Genitive: Katjas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Katja
Genitive: Katjas

Name Days

Finland Finland

25 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

25 November

Sweden Sweden

25 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Katja Ingergard Geiger ("Katja of Sweden", born Karin Ingegerd Hallberg, 12 January 1920 – 25 January 2017), Swedish fashion designer
  • Katja Maria Riosianu Medbøe (3 December 1945 – ca 13 November 1996), Norwegian actress

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&
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
18167
n.a.
18167 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
4035
n.a.
4035
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
2237 2838 2237 2835 0 3
Greenland Greenland[13]
14 24
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
7 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
527
n.a.
527
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 Katja (f) Sources: [12][11][15][10]


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no