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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Latin spelling of the Hebrew name עֲדִינָה ('Adinah); Hebrew adin = 'pretty, delicate, slim' [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Pet form of Ada [1] [2] [3]
3) Pet form of Adriana (see Adrianus) [2]
See also -dina
Related Names
See also Dina and Edna
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Adina
|
Genitive: |
Adinas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Adina
|
Genitive: |
Adinan
|
Partitive: |
Adinaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Adina
|
Genitive: |
Adinas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Adina
|
Genitive: |
Adinas
|
Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Bible
- Adina was a male name, but because of the ending -a it is merely used as a female name in Scandinavia
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,427 people were named Adina (percentage of first or only given name: 22 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
697 |
1685 |
697 |
1685 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
667 |
n.a. |
667 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[10] |
|
98 |
n.a. |
98 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[11] |
|
4 |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
|
1 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
175 |
n.a. |
175 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: 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
Sources: [8][10][13][9]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Adina (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no