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Erica
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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling of Erika [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Erika
Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Ericuson |
|
Female
| Ericudóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Erica |
| Genitive: | Ericas |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Erica |
| Genitive: | Erican |
| Partitive: | Ericaa |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Erica |
| Accusative: | Ericu |
| Dative: | Ericu |
| Genitive: | Ericu |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Erica |
| Genitive: | Ericas |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Erica |
| Genitive: | Ericas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Sweden: Södermanland (19th century) see map [6]
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[7] |
  |
4562 | 8095 | 1 | 2 |
| Norway[8] |
 |
638 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Denmark[9] |
 |
289 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Finland[10] |
|
n.a. | 2090 | 0 | 0 |
| #: 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Erica (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
Source: [6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi