Rea

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant spelling of Rhea [1] [2] [3]

2) English short form of Andrea [1]

Related Names

Rea
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Reea
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Reuson Iceland

Female

Reudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Reas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Rean
Partitive: Reaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rea
Accusative: Reu
Dative: Reu
Genitive: Reu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Reas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Reas

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

8 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 44 people were named Rea (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %) [6]

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&
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
1023
n.a.
1023 0 0
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 324
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
45 71 45 71 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10]
20
n.a.
20
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
20
n.a.
20
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
0 1
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 Rea.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/