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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of Magdalena [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
For male forms see Magdar
Male
Magduson
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Mögduson
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Female
Magdudóttir
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Mögdudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Magda
|
Genitive: |
Magdas
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Magda
|
Accusative: |
Magdu
|
Dative: |
Magdu
|
Genitive: |
Magdu
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Magda
|
Genitive: |
Magdan
|
Partitive: |
Magdaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Magda
|
Accusative: |
Mögdu
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Dative: |
Mögdu
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Genitive: |
Mögdu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Magda
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Genitive: |
Magdas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Magda
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Genitive: |
Magdas
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Name Days
Faroe Islands
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11 May
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Norway
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11 May
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Magda Gad (born 17 October 1975), Swedish journalist and war correspondent
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,908 people were named Magda (percentage of first or only given name: 82 %) [9]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[11] |
|
679 |
1226 |
679 |
1226 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[12] |
|
498 |
n.a. |
498 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
183 |
n.a. |
183 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[14] |
|
31 |
35 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[15] |
|
3 |
21 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
325 |
n.a. |
325 |
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
Sources: [11][12][16][13]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Magda (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no