Fenja

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse name meaning 'fen-dweller', 'heath-dweller'

2) Old Norse name meaning 'remover of chaff' (less likely)

3) Old Norse name meaning 'hard worker' (less likely)

4) Frisian variant form of Fenna

5) Latin spelling of Феня (Fenya), a Russian pet form of e. g. Feodora and Marfa

Related Names

Fenja

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See also Finja

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Fenja
Genitive:	Fenjas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Fenja
Genitive:	Fenjan
Partitive:	Fenjaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Fenja
Genitive:	Fenjas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Fenja
Genitive:	Fenjas

Further Information

Norse Mythology

• Fenja and Menja are two giantess serving girls who turn the mill-stone of the mythical mill Grotti in the Grottasǫngr

Trivia

• Fenja is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Denmark		281	n.a.	281	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		51	56	51	56	0	0
Finland		n.a.	20	n.a.	20	0	0
Greenland		0	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		8	n.a.	8	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 Fenja.