Lilja

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Icelandic, Faroese and Swedish lilja = 'lily' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Norwegian and Danish lilje = 'lily' ^[5]

Sami liljá = 'lily'

Deriving from Latin lilium = 'lily' ^[6]

Related Names

Lilia	♀
Lilja	♀
Liljá	♀
Liljar	♂
Lilje	♀
Lillia	♀

See also Lilli and Lilian

Combinations

Name Element	Example
SOL	see Sóllilja

See also Tigerlilja

Name Day

Finland

20 May

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Lilja
Accusative:	Lilju
Dative:	Lilju
Genitive:	Lilju

- Faroese
Nominative:	Lilja
Accusative:	Lilju
Dative:	Lilju
Genitive:	Lilju

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		396	748	0	0
Denmark[8]		160	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[9]		128	270	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	8843	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]}:

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

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
3. ↑ Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog (1999)
6. ↑ Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
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