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Eira f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Eira m for the male version.

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Eir [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Welsh name meaning 'snow' [5]

Related Names

Eira ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Eire ♀ Swedish
Ejra ♀ Swedish

For male forms see Eire m

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eira
Genitive: Eiras
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eira
Genitive: Eiran
Partitive: Eiraa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eira
Genitive: Eiras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eira
Genitive: Eiras

Name Days

Finland Finland

9 August

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

9 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Place Names

  • The town district Eira in Helsinki, Finland, got its name from a hospital named Eira

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1701 people were named Eira f (percentage of first or only given name: 75 %) [7]

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&
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 5606
n.a.
 5599
n.a.
 7
Sweden Sweden[9]
1516 2393 1513 2389 3 4
Denmark Denmark[10]
32
n.a.
 32
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
1182
n.a.
 1182
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][10][12][8]:Name statistics for Eira (f)

Sources: [9] [10] [12] [8]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[12]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Eira (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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