Nordic Names

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Alda

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Female Female Name

Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse alda = 'wave' [1] [2] [3] [4]

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2) German short form of Adela [3] [5]

3) Swedish pet form of Alexandra [3]

4) Short form of names ending with -alda [5]

Related Names

Alda ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Alde ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Aldi ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish

See also Aldina

For male forms see Aldan, Aldar, Aldur

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Alduson Faroe Islands
Ölduson Iceland

Female

Aldudóttir Faroe Islands
Öldudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Alda
Genitive: Aldas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Alda
Accusative: Aldu
Dative: Aldu
Genitive: Aldu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Alda
Genitive: Aldan
Partitive: Aldaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Alda
Accusative: Öldu
Dative: Öldu
Genitive: Öldu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Alda
Genitive: Aldas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Alda
Genitive: Aldas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[8]
360 576
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
97 167 97 167 0 0
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 194
n.a.
 194 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
35
n.a.
 35
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
31
n.a.
 31
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.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Alda (f) Sources: [14]


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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