Ranka

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse pet form of Ragnheiðr [1]

2) Old Norse pet form of Ragnhildr [1]

3) Slovenian rany, rano, ranni = 'early', 'early rising', 'early in the morning' [2]

4) Low German name of unknown origin and meaning [3]

Related Names

Ranka
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rönkuson Iceland

Female

Rönkudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ranka
Genitive: Rankas
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ranka
Accusative: Rönku
Dative: Rönku
Genitive: Rönku
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ranka
Genitive: Rankas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ranka
Genitive: Rankas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
36 40 36 40 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
11
n.a.
11
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
12
n.a.
12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ranka.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/