Indra f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Indra m for the male version.

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Indri [1]

2) Name of the (male!) Hindu warrior god of the sky and rain इन्द्र (Indra) or इंद्र (Indra)

2a) Combination of Sanskrit इन्दु (indu) = 'a drop' and र (ra) = 'possessing' [2]

2b) Sanskrit indh = 'to flame, to twinkle' [3] [4]

2c) Sanskrit ind = 'to conquer, to defeat' [3]

2d) Probably deriving from a root element denoting strength and fertility [5]

Related Names

Indra
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
Indra
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Indre
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Indruson Iceland

Female

Indrudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Indra
Genitive: Indras
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Indra
Genitive: Indran
Partitive: Indraa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Indra
Accusative: Indru
Dative: Indru
Genitive: Indru
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Indra
Genitive: Indras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Indra
Genitive: Indras

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 19 people were named Indra f (percentage of first or only given name: 74 %) [7]

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[8]
466 644 457 623 9 21
Denmark Denmark[9]
43
n.a.
30
n.a.
13
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
50
n.a.
33
n.a.
17
Iceland Iceland[11]
7 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
60
n.a.
50
n.a.
10
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[8][9][12][10]:Name statistics for Indra (f)

Sources: [8] [9] [12] [10]


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
  3. 3.0 3.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  4. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/