Esja

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Swedish
Danish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse esja = 'a kind of clay'

Related Names

Esja	♀
Esjar	♂

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Esjuson

Female

Esjudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Esja
Genitive:	Esjas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Esja
Genitive:	Esjan
Partitive:	Esjaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Esja
Accusative:	Esju
Dative:	Esju
Genitive:	Esju

- Swedish
Nominative:	Esja
Genitive:	Esjas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: In the census of 2008

Trivia

• Esja is also used as an Icelandic horse name
• The name of the mountain Esja in Iceland derives its name from the clay

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&
Iceland		19	32	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		5	6	5	6	0	0
Denmark		7	n.a.	7	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	2	n.a.	2	0	0
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		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 Esja.