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Elli f

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

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse elli = 'age' [1]

2) Variant form of Ella [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Elli ♀
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 Old Norse Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elli
Genitive: Ellis
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elli
Genitive: Ellin
Partitive: Elliä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elli
Genitive: Ellis
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elli
Genitive: Ellis

Name Days

Finland Finland

11 July

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

11 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Norse Mythology

  • Elli is the personification of old age. She is Útgarðaloki's wetnurse, which Þórr has to wrestle. He is bound to lose the contest because nobody can ever conquer old age. [1]

Trivia

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.
 24197
n.a.
 24195
n.a.
 2
Sweden Sweden[9]
744 1179 736 1167 8 12
Denmark Denmark[10]
247
n.a.
 247
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
1 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
149
n.a.
 149
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[9][10][12][8]:Name statistics for Elli (f)

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


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 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. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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