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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
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
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ginger
|
Genitive: |
Gingers
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ginger
|
Genitive: |
Gingerin
|
Partitive: |
Gingeriä
|
- 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
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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[5] |
|
116 |
244 |
116 |
242 |
0 |
2 |
Denmark[6] |
|
5 |
n.a. |
4 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
8 |
n.a. |
8 |
0 |
0 |
Norway[8] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/