Dorotea

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Dorothea [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Dorothea

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Doroteuson Faroe Islands

Female

Doroteudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dorotea
Genitive: Doroteas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Dorotea
Accusative: Doroteu
Dative: Doroteu
Genitive: Doroteu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dorotea
Genitive: Dorotean
Partitive: Doroteaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dorotea
Genitive: Doroteas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dorotea
Genitive: Doroteas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

6 February

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 February

Sweden Sweden

6 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 6972 people were named Dorotea (percentage of first or only given name: 5 %) [5]

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[7]
168 1620 168 1620 0 0
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
278
n.a.
278 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
8
n.a.
8
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
19
n.a.
19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/