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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Edel m for the male version.
Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
Sami
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
German variant form of Edela [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Edela
Male
Edelarson
|
|
Female
Edelardóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Edel
|
Genitive: |
Edels
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Edel
|
Genitive: |
Edelin
|
Partitive: |
Edeliä
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Edel
|
Accusative: |
Edel
|
Dative: |
Edel
|
Genitive: |
Edelar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Edel
|
Genitive: |
Edels
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Edel
|
Genitive: |
Edels
|
Name Days
Denmark
|
10 March
|
Norway
|
10 March
|
Sami
|
13 April
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 243 people were named Edel f (percentage of first or only given name: 76 %) [7]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[8] |
|
1211 |
n.a. |
1209 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Sweden[9] |
|
80 |
218 |
70 |
194 |
10 |
24 |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
128 |
n.a. |
70 |
n.a. |
58 |
Greenland[11] |
|
7 |
40 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
|
1 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
2021 |
n.a. |
2021 |
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. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[9][8][13][10]:
Sources: [9] [8] [13] [10]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[13]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no