Tea

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending with -tea / -thea ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

2) Short form of Theresia and its variant forms ^{[1] [4]}

3) Short form of Theodora ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

3) Female form of Teo

Related Names

Tea	♀
Teija	♀
Thea	♀
Tiia	♀

Name Days

Faroe Islands

26 April

Finland

6 February

Norway

26 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 February

Sweden

23 September

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Tea
Accusative:	Teu
Dative:	Teu
Genitive:	Teu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1843 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		1178	1587	0	1
Denmark[7]		398	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[8]		209	359	0	0
Finland[9]		n.a.	2749	n.a	3
#: 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^[6][7][8][9]:

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
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. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi