Lina

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending in -lina / -line / -lin / -liina. These suffixes are usually added to male names in order to make them female or to female names to create a pet form. ^{[1] [2]}

2) Female form of Linus ^[2]

Related Names

Liina	♀
Liini	♀
Liinu	♀
Lina	♀
Lína	♀
Line	♀
Linette	♀
Linken	♀

See also Linn

Combinations

For combinations see LIN (name element)

Name Days

Faroe Islands

20 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 June

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Lina
Accusative:	Linu
Dative:	Linu
Genitive:	Linu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1802 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		15405	18613	0	0
Norway[4]		1386	2179	0	0
Denmark[5]		1288	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	1039	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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][5][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi