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Male Name
Usage
Old Norse
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse elliði = 'fast sailing ship' [1] [2] of uncertain origin:
1) Ancient Norse *ein-liði, a combination of EIN and LID [3] [4] [5] [6]
2) Old Church Slavonic alŭdija, ladija = 'river barge' [3] [4] [6]
Related Names
For female forms see Ellida
Male
Elliðason
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Female
Elliðadóttir
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Combinations
Grammar
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Elliði
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Accusative: |
Elliða
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Dative: |
Elliða
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Genitive: |
Elliða
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Iceland: In the census of 1910 (Gullbringu- og Kjósarsýsla) [6]
Norse Mythology
- Originally, Elliði was used as a ship name, not as a given name. It was the name of Friðþjófr's ship in the legendary Icelandic Friðþjófssaga [8]
Trivia
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& |
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Iceland[9] |
|
11 |
18 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[10] |
|
1 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Norway[12] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[14] |
|
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Elliði.
References
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/