Eyja

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name, see EY (name element) for further information [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Ey
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Eyia
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Norse
Eyja
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Icelandic Old Norse Swedish

See also Eija

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Eyjuson Iceland

Female

Eyjudóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see EY (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eyja
Genitive: Eyjas
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Eyja
Accusative: Eyju
Dative: Eyju
Genitive: Eyju
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eyja
Genitive: Eyjas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

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&
Iceland Iceland[5]
40 83
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
12 18 12 18 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
12
n.a.
12
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
2
n.a.
2 0 0
Norway Norway[9]
4
n.a.
4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Eyja.


References

  1. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  2. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/