Ginger

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

English name

1) Short form of Virginia [1] [2]

2) From the English vocabulary word ginger, used for someone with red hair [1] [2]

Related Names

Ginger
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ginger
Genitive: Gingers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ginger
Genitive: Gingerin
Partitive: Gingeriä
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ginger
Genitive: Gingers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 228 people were named Ginger (percentage of first or only given name: 72 %) [4]

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&
Sweden Sweden[5]
116 244 116 242 0 2
Denmark Denmark[6]
5
n.a.
4
n.a.
1
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
8
n.a.
8 0 0
Norway Norway[8]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Ginger.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/