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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Eira m for the male version.
Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
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
For male forms see Eire m
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Eira
|
Genitive: |
Eiras
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Eira
|
Genitive: |
Eiran
|
Partitive: |
Eiraa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Eira
|
Genitive: |
Eiras
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Eira
|
Genitive: |
Eiras
|
Name Days
Finland
|
9 August
|
 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
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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& |
---|
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
5606 |
n.a. |
5599 |
n.a. |
7 |
Sweden[9] |
|
1516 |
2393 |
1513 |
2389 |
3 |
4 |
Denmark[10] |
|
32 |
n.a. |
32 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[11] |
|
0 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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]:
Sources: [9] [10] [12] [8]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[12]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no