Catharina

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Katharina (see also -rina) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Katharina

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Catharina
Genitive: Catharinas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Catharina
Genitive: Catharinan
Partitive: Catharinaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Catharina
Genitive: Catharinas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Catharina
Genitive: Catharinas

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

25 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Catharina Bröms (5 October 1665 - 27 October 1735), Swedish ironmaster

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 5777 people were named Catharina (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [6]

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&
Sweden Sweden[8]
4758 9647 4758 9642 0 5
Denmark Denmark[9]
580
n.a.
580
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
887
n.a.
887 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
516
n.a.
516
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Catharina (f) Sources: [8][9][12][10]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Catharina (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Catharina (f)


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. 7.0 7.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/