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Indiana

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Female Female Name

Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of India (see also -iana) [1] [2]

2) English name deriving from the American state Indiana

The future American state was given its Latin-style name in the mid-18th century by French settlers or developers, the reference being to the Indian tribes whose territory it was. [3]

As applied to American Indians, the name does not relate to the country of India, but it arose through the error of Christopher Columbus, who conceived the plan of sailing due west from Portugal to reach Asia, and who believed he had reached India when he actually arrived in the West Indies in 1492. So the indigenous inhabitants were called Indians. (See India)[3]

Related Names

Indiana ♀
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Indíana ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Indiane ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian
Indianna ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Indianne ♀
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 Norwegian Swedish

See also Inda, Indi, Indine

For male forms see Indian, Indor

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Indiönuson Iceland

Female

Indiönudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Indiana
Genitive: Indianas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Indiana
Genitive: Indianan
Partitive: Indianaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Indiana
Accusative: Indiönu
Dative: Indiönu
Genitive: Indiönu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Indiana
Genitive: Indianas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Indiana
Genitive: Indianas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Predominant Regional 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[5]
19 66 14 39 5 27
Iceland Iceland[6]
29 34
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 24
n.a.
 16
n.a.
 8
Denmark Denmark[8]
8
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
27
n.a.
 27
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Indiana.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  4. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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