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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Latin gloria = 'glory' [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See also Gloriana, Gloriela
Male
Gloriuson
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Female
Gloriudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Gloria
|
Genitive: |
Glorias
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Gloria
|
Accusative: |
Gloriu
|
Dative: |
Gloriu
|
Genitive: |
Gloriu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Gloria
|
Genitive: |
Glorian
|
Partitive: |
Gloriaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Gloria
|
Genitive: |
Glorias
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Gloria
|
Genitive: |
Glorias
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 57 people were named Gloria (percentage of first or only given name: 47 %) [5]
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[7] |
|
805 |
1236 |
803 |
1231 |
2 |
5 |
Denmark[8] |
|
201 |
n.a. |
201 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
291 |
n.a. |
291 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[9] |
|
6 |
10 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[10] |
|
283 |
n.a. |
283 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[11] |
|
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [7][8][10][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/