Benna

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Icelandic
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Benny (see also -a)

Related Names

See Benny

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bennuson

Female

Bennudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Benna
Genitive:	Bennas

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Benna
Accusative:	Bennu
Dative:	Bennu
Genitive:	Bennu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Benna
Genitive:	Bennas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Benna
Genitive:	Bennas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • 1834
• Norway:
  • 1855
  • 1860
• Iceland:
  • In the census of 2008

Trivia

• Benna 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&
Denmark		45	n.a.	45	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		0	9	0	3	0	6
Iceland		2	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	2	n.a.	2	0	0
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		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 Benna.