Rakel

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Rachel ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Rachel

Name Days

Norway

3 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

17 December

Sweden

26 June

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Rakel
Accusative:	Rakel
Dative:	Rakel
Genitive:	Rakelar

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		880	1481	0	0
Sweden[5]		820	1716	0	0
Denmark[6]		177	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	6436	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][4][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
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