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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Mari m for the male version.
Usage
Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Nordic variant form of Marie (see Maria) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) Short form of Marina [2]
3) Short form of Takmari (see Dagmár) [6]
4) Greenlandic younger spelling of Mare (see Maria) [7]
Related Names
See also Marikki
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Mari
|
Genitive: |
Maris
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Mari
|
Genitive: |
Marin
|
Partitive: |
Maria
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Mari
|
Genitive: |
Maris
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Mari
|
Genitive: |
Maris
|
Name Days
Finland
|
2 July
|
Norway
|
25 March
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Norway:
- Mari Bjørgan (7 November 1950 – 30 November 2014), Norwegian actress and variety show comedian
- Mari Boine Persen (née Mari Boine Olsen, * 8 November 1956), Norwegian Sami musician
- Finland:
Trivia
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& |
---|
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
26144 |
n.a. |
26144 |
0 |
0 |
Sweden[11] |
|
4307 |
15582 |
4304 |
15572 |
3 |
10 |
Denmark[12] |
|
206 |
n.a. |
205 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
6 |
20 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
5 |
11 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
10950 |
n.a. |
10950 |
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. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[11][12][15][10]:
Sources: [11] [12] [15] [10]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[15]:
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Mari (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ The Greenland Language Secretariat Oqaasileriffik http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/kl
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no