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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) Female form of Florus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Short form of Florentina [5] [7]
3) Pet form of Blancheflor [8]
4) Pet form of Florentia [8]
Related Names
See also Fleur, Florentia, Florinda
Combinations
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Flora
|
Genitive: |
Floras
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Flora
|
Genitive: |
Floran
|
Partitive: |
Floraa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Flora
|
Genitive: |
Floras
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Flora
|
Genitive: |
Floras
|
Name Day
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
13 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 294 people were named Flora (percentage of first or only given name: 72 %) [9]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[10] |
|
969 |
1369 |
967 |
1366 |
2 |
3 |
Denmark[11] |
|
864 |
n.a. |
864 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
251 |
n.a. |
251 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[13] |
|
7 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
|
0 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
142 |
n.a. |
142 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [10][11][15][12]
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2023).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no