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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Personification of the country India [1] [2] [3]

The country takes its name from the river Indus, now mostly flowing not through India itself but through Pakistan. The name of the river is from Sanskrit sindhu = 'river' [4]

2) Variant form of Inda [2]

Related Names

India ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Indía ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

See also Inda, Indiana, Indika, Indine

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Indiuson Iceland

Female

Indiudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: India
Genitive: Indias
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: India
Genitive: Indian
Partitive: Indiaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: India
Accusative: Indiu
Dative: Indiu
Genitive: Indiu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: India
Genitive: Indias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: India
Genitive: Indias

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

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[6]
52 119 52 119 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
71
n.a.
 71
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 51
n.a.
 51 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
60
n.a.
 60
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for India.


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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