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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Old Swedish
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Latinised form of Agathe [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
See Agathe
Male
Agöthuson
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Female
Agöthudóttir
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Grammar
- Old Swedish |
Nominative: |
Agatha
|
Dative: |
Agathe/Agatha
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- Danish |
Nominative: |
Agatha
|
Genitive: |
Agathas
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Agatha
|
Genitive: |
Agathan
|
Partitive: |
Agathaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Agatha
|
Accusative: |
Agöthu
|
Dative: |
Agöthu
|
Genitive: |
Agöthu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Agatha
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Genitive: |
Agathas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Agatha
|
Genitive: |
Agathas
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Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (née Brumengeber or Brunnengräber, 30 August 1724 - 1 September 1787), Finnish (originally Baltic German) poet and correspondent
- Agatha Rosenius (née Lindberg, 10 September 1814 - 29 August 1874), Swedish hymn writer.
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 17 people were named Agatha (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [11]
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& |
---|
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
244 |
n.a. |
244 |
0 |
0 |
Sweden[13] |
|
45 |
99 |
45 |
99 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[14] |
|
12 |
19 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[15] |
|
18 |
n.a. |
18 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
40 |
n.a. |
40 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
|
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Agatha.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Erik Henrik Lind: Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden (Supplementband (1931)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/