Carla

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Karla

Related Names

See Karla

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Cörluson

Female

Cörludóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Carla
Genitive:	Carlas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Carla
Genitive:	Carlan
Partitive:	Carlaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Carla
Accusative:	Cörlu
Dative:	Cörlu
Genitive:	Cörlu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Carla
Genitive:	Carlas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Carla
Genitive:	Carlas

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

28 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1827
• Greenland: 1942
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 23 March 2011

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1885-1919
  • 1900-1929
• Denmark:
  • -1940
  • 1990-
  • 2005-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Gotland

Namesakes

• Carla Sehn (born 1 August 1994), Swedish actress

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 814 people were named Carla (percentage of first or only given name: 67 %)

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		2200	n.a.	2200	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		826	1579	824	1574	2	5
Finland		n.a.	560	n.a.	560	0	0
Greenland		18	36	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		16	23	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		319	n.a.	319	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.

 

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