Märta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Short forms of Märeta and Merete (see Merete) [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Merta
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Swedish
Merte
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Danish Old Danish
Mertha
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Mertta
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Finish
Märta
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Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Mærta
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Norwegian
Märtha
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Mærtha
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Norwegian

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Märta
Genitive: Märtas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Märta
Genitive: Märtan
Partitive: Märtaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Märta
Genitive: Märtas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Märta
Genitive: Märtas

Name Days

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

26 August

Sweden Sweden

11 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Märta Berendes (21 January 1639 – 18 October 1717), Swedish Baroness and diary writer
  • Märta Johanna Bucht (23 October 1882 - 1 November 1962), Swedish teacher and women's rights activist

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&
Sweden Sweden[5]
7380 24215 7380 24211 0 4
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
1337
n.a.
1337 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
14
n.a.
14
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
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 Märta (f) Sources: [5][8][9][7]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Märta (f) Sources: [11]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Märta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Märta (f)


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. details see Name Statistic tables