Magga

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Sweden Swedish
Sami Sami

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Origin and Meaning

1) Pet form of Margareta and its variant forms [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Pet form of Magnhilda (see Magnhildr) [1] [3]

3) (Lule) Sami form of Margareta [6] [7]

Related Names

Magga
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Old Swedish Sami Swedish
Mággá
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Sami

See also Maggan, Maggie

Combinations

For combinations see MAGG (name element)

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Magguson Faroe Islands
Mögguson Iceland
Møgguson Faroe Islands

Female

Maggudóttir Faroe Islands
Möggudóttir Iceland
Møggudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Magga
Genitive: Maggas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Magga
Accusative: Maggu/Møggu
Dative: Maggu/Møggu
Genitive: Maggu/Møggu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Magga
Genitive: Maggan
Partitive: Maggaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Magga
Accusative: Möggu
Dative: Möggu
Genitive: Möggu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Magga
Genitive: Maggas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Magga
Genitive: Maggas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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.
38
n.a.
38 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
9 13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
3 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[13]
3
n.a.
3
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[14]
0 4 0 4 0 0
Norway Norway[15]
5
n.a.
5
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Magga.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. Olav Veka: Norsk etternamnleksikon (2001)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
  7. Ivar Utne: Hva er et navn? (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no