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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Elif m for the male version.
Turkish elif = 'alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, ا' and its transferred meaning 'slender' [1]
Elif | ♀ |
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Turkish |
Elif is a name used among immigrants from Turkey, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
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[2] |
|
638 | 820 | 638 | 817 | 0 | 3 |
Denmark[3] |
|
533 | n.a. |
529 | n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
Finland[4] |
|
n.a. |
212 | n.a. |
211 | n.a. |
1 |
Iceland[5] |
|
1 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[6] |
|
186 | n.a. |
186 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
|
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. |