Bylgja

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Faroese
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse bylgja = 'billow', 'wave'

Related Names

Bylgja

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Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bylgjuson

Female

Bylgjudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Bylgja
Genitive:	Bylgjas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Bylgja
Accusative:	Bylgju
Dative:	Bylgju
Genitive:	Bylgju

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Bylgja
Accusative:	Bylgju
Dative:	Bylgju
Genitive:	Bylgju

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Bylgja
Genitive:	Bylgjas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: 1921-1930

Norse Mythology

• Bylgja was one of nine daughters ("billow maidens") of Ægir and Rán in the Northern mythology, each name reflecting a different characteristic of ocean waves:
  • Bára (or Drǫfn) - Foam Fleck, Comber
  • Blóðughadda - Bloody Hair (a reference to red sea foam)
  • Bylgja - Billow
  • Dúfa - Pitching Wave
  • Hefring - Rising Wave
  • Himinglæva - Transparent Wave
  • Hrǫnn - Welling Wave
  • Kolga - Cool Wave
  • Unnr (or Uðr) - Frothing Wave

Trivia

• Bylgja 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&
Iceland		106	128	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		6	n.a.	6	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway		5	n.a.	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
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 Bylgja.