Otta f

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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Otta m for the male version of this name.

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Ottilia ^[1]

2) Female form of Otto ^[1]

3) Short form of Lotta (see Lotte)

4) Variant form of Ótta

5) In Sweden, Otta has also been associated with the vocabulary word åtta = 'eight' and been given to the eighth child of the family ^[1]

Related Names

Otta	♀

See also Otti

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1848 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		6	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[3]		4	7	0	0
Sweden[4]		2	5	0	0
Finland[5]		0	0	0	0
#: 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 Otta.

Sources: ^{[4] [2] [3] [5]}

References

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