Ronja

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1)
Fantasy name from the children's book 'Ronja Rövardotter' (1981; English title: 'Ronia, the Robber's daughter') by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, who got the idea for that name searching through a map of northern Scandinavia finding a lake with the Sami name Juronjaure. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Another theory is that Astrid Lindgren got the idea for the name from a Laplander's hut named Anironiarekåtan

2)
Ronja is also a Russian pet form of Veronica, but almost nobody was named Ronja in the Nordic countries before 1981. ^{[2] [1] [3]}

Related Names

Ronia	♀
Ronja	♀
Ronya	♀

Name Days

Faroe Islands

8 April

Finland

4 February

Norway

12 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

4 February

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ronja
Accusative:	Ronju
Dative:	Ronju
Genitive:	Ronju

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ronja
Accusative:	Ronju
Dative:	Ronju
Genitive:	Ronju

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		3610	4672	0	0
Norway[5]		927	1521	0	0
Denmark[6]		847	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	4071	n.a	2
#: 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^[4][6][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

1. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi