Norma

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Invented by Felice Romani for the opera 'Norma':

Latin norma = 'rule, standard' ^{[1] [2]}

2) Female form of Norðmaðr

Related Names

Norma	♀

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Norma
Accusative:	Normu
Dative:	Normu
Genitive:	Normu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Norma
Accusative:	Normu
Dative:	Normu
Genitive:	Normu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1873 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		585	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[4]		486	742	0	0
Norway[5]		109	289	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	194	n.a	2
#: 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 Norma.

Sources: ^{[4] [3] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi