Selma

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Anselma (see Anshelm) ^[1]

2) From the name of Fingal's castle in the Ossian poem by James Macpherson, Celtic shelma = 'beautiful view' ^{[1] [2]}

3) Variant form of Salma ^[2]

Related Names

Selbmá	♀
Selma	♀
Selmar	♂
Selmine	♀
Zelma	♀

See also Selm

Combinations

Name Element	Example
FRID	see Sällfrid

Name Days

Finland

5 December

Norway

21 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 December

Sweden

27 June

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Selma
Accusative:	Selmu
Dative:	Selmu
Genitive:	Selmu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Selma
Accusative:	Selmu
Dative:	Selmu
Genitive:	Selmu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1799 ^[2]

Namesakes

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf, 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940, Swedish author and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1909)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		4023	5878	0	0
Norway[4]		1929	2719	0	0
Denmark[5]		1925	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	11068	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^[3][5][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi