Vega

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

The (Spanish) name of the brightest star in the constellation Lyra.

It derives from Arabic waqi = 'falling', which is an abbreviation of its full name an-nasr al-waqui = 'the falling eagle' as opposed to Altair, the brightest star in the constellation Aquila: at-ta'ir = 'flying eagle' ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Vega	♀
Wega	♀

Name Day

Sweden

24 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1874 ^[2]

Namesakes

Vega was the name of the ship of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his Arctic exploration voyage when he discovered the Northeast Passage (1878-1880) ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		773	1449	3	17
Denmark[4]		158	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		13	25	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	57	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][4][5][6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi