Agatha

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Agathe [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Agathe

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Agöthuson Iceland

Female

Agöthudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Agatha
Dative: Agathe/Agatha
Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Agatha
Genitive: Agathas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Agatha
Genitive: Agathan
Partitive: Agathaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Agatha
Accusative: Agöthu
Dative: Agöthu
Genitive: Agöthu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Agatha
Genitive: Agathas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Agatha
Genitive: Agathas

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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
244
n.a.
244 0 0
Sweden Sweden[13]
45 99 45 99 0 0
Iceland Iceland[14]
12 19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[15]
18
n.a.
18
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
40
n.a.
40
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland 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. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Erik Henrik Lind: Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden (Supplementband (1931)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  7. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  8. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/