Yrsa

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of a Proto-Norse name of uncertain meaning.

Theories include:

1) Modern variant form of Ýrr ^{[1] [2]}

2) From an Ancient Norse unknown word for 'she-bear' with the same roots as Latin ursus (see also Ursula, which is used as a Latinisation of Yrsa as well) ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Related Names

Yrsa	♀
Yrse	♀
Yrsi	♀

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 August

Sweden

21 October

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Yrsa
Accusative:	Yrsu
Dative:	Yrsu
Genitive:	Yrsu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Yrsa
Accusative:	Yrsu
Dative:	Yrsu
Genitive:	Yrsu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1892 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[6]		1162	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[7]		245	345	0	1
Norway[8]		7	11	0	0
Finland[9]		n.a.	160	n.a	1
#: 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^[7][6][8][9]:

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

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
3. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi