Alba

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Alberta and variant forms [1]

2) Latin alba = 'white' (Female form of Albinus/Latin translation of Blanca) [1] [2] [3] [4]

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3) Female form of Albo [4]

Related Names

Alba
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ölbuson Iceland

Female

Ölbudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Albas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Alban
Partitive: Albaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Alba
Accusative: Ölbu
Dative: Ölbu
Genitive: Ölbu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Albas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Alba
Genitive: Albas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 107 people were named Alba (percentage of first or only given name: 73 %) [6]

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&
Denmark Denmark[7]
1861
n.a.
1859
n.a.
2
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
990 1310 990 1308 0 2
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
251
n.a.
251 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
33 68
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
351
n.a.
351
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

Name statistics for Alba (f) Sources: [8][7][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Alba (f) Sources: [13]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. details see Name Statistic tables