Oddveig

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic name

New combination of ODD and VEIG ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Oddvá	♀
Oddveig	♀
Odveig	♀
Udve	♀

Name Days

Faroe Islands

7 April

Norway

7 April

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Oddveig
Accusative:	Oddveigu
Dative:	Oddveigu
Genitive:	Oddveigar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Oddveig
Accusative:	Oddveig
Dative:	Oddveig
Genitive:	Oddveigar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 1905 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		694	1376	0	0
Sweden[5]		16	43	0	0
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [4] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi