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Jemima

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Hebrew יְמִימָה (yemima) = 'dove' (bird) [1]

Dove
Dove
Image by Felix Abraham,[2]
licensed as public domain

Related Names

Jemima ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jemime ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian
Yemima ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish

See also Jemina, Jemi

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jemimuson Faroe Islands

Female

Jemimudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jemima
Genitive: Jemimas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Jemima
Accusative: Jemimu
Dative: Jemimu
Genitive: Jemimu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jemima
Genitive: Jemiman
Partitive: Jemimaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jemima
Genitive: Jemimas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jemima
Genitive: Jemimas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • Jemima is the oldest daughter of Iob in the Old Testament

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 17 people were named Jemima (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [5]

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]
101 169 101 169 0 0
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 102
n.a.
 102 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
26
n.a.
 26
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
34
n.a.
 34
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 Jemima.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Felix Abraham, source & license
  3. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  4. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  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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