Tova

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish, Old Danish and modern form of Tófa ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Tófi

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Tova
Accusative:	Tovu
Dative:	Tovu
Genitive:	Tovu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1912 (in modern times) ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		2398	2782	0	0
Denmark[5]		16	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		7	16	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	52	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][5][6][7]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi