Amma

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Greenlandic
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Old Norse names beginning with Arn- or Am- (see ARN)

2) Old Swedish amma = 'wet nurse'

3) Old Norse amma = 'grandmother'

4) Old Norse ama/amma = 'dark one'

5) Greenlandic younger spelling of Áma (see Ama)

6) German pet form of names beginning with Amal- (see also AMAL)

7) German pet form of names containing a first element ADAL and a last element beginning with M-

Related Names

Ama	♀
Amma	♀

See also Áma, Ammi

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Amma
Genitive:	Ammas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Amma
Genitive:	Amman
Partitive:	Ammaa

- Swedish
Nominative:	Amma
Genitive:	Ammas

Further Information

Norse Mythology

1) Amma is the wife of Afi in the Rígsþula

2) Amma is also the name of a giantess in the Þulur

Trivia

• Amma is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Greenland		0	44	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		10	n.a.	10	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		0	17	0	14	0	3
Finland		n.a.	8	n.a.	8	0	0
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	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 Amma.