Maj

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Maja ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

Mai	♀
Maj	♀
May	♀

See also Maikki, Majsa

Combinations

For combinations see MAJ (name element)

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 July

Sweden

19 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1877 ^[1]

Namesakes

Maj Sjöwall, Swedish author and translator, born: 25th September, 1935

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		11875	20901	0	0
Denmark[6]		1293	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		60	511	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	1013	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^[5][6][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi