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Icelandic
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
From the name of the active volcano in southwest Iceland
Old Norse hekla = 'cloak' (referring to the cloak of mist that hides its summit)
Hekla | ♀ |
|
Hekluson |
Hekludóttir |
- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Hekla |
Genitive: | Heklas |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Hekla |
Genitive: | Heklan |
Partitive: | Heklaa |
- Icelandic | |
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Nominative: | Hekla |
Accusative: | Heklu |
Dative: | Heklu |
Genitive: | Heklu |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Hekla |
Genitive: | Heklas |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Hekla |
Genitive: | Heklas |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Iceland[2] |
|
427 | 553 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[3] |
|
25 | n.a. |
25 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Sweden[4] |
|
15 | 18 | 15 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
15 | n.a. |
15 | 0 | 0 |
Norway[6] |
|
13 | n.a. |
13 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
|
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. |
Sources: [8]