Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Gjendine

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) From the name of the lake Gjende in Jotunheimen/Norway [1] [2] deriving from Old Norse gandr = 'magic staff' (due to the long shape of the lake) [3]

2) Variant spelling of Jendine [1]

See also -dine

Related Names

Gjendine ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian

See also Dina

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gjendine
Genitive: Gjendines

Further Information

Namesakes

  • Kaia Gjendine Slålien (15 July 1871 - 13 May 1972), Norwegian mountain shepherdess, who inspired Edvard Grieg when he listened to her singing folk songs

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[4]
2 4 2 4 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
22
n.a.
 22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[8]
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 Gjendine.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Jørn Sandnes og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Stadnamnleksikon (1997)
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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