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

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form (English) of Hebrew names containing the name element JO [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Short form of Nordic names containing the name element [6]

Related Names

Jo
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Joa
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Danish Finish Swedish
Jóa
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Icelandic
Joe
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Danish Swedish
Joey
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Joh
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Finish Swedish

Combinations

For combinations see JO and (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jo
Genitive: Jos
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jo
Genitive: Jon
Partitive: Jota
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jo
Genitive: Jos
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jo
Genitive: Jos

Name Day

Norway Norway

29 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Johanne "Jo" Marie Giæver Tenfjord (12 June 1918 – 13 August 2007), Norwegian librarian, children's writer and translator

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[7]
83 240 44 149 39 91
Denmark Denmark[8]
202
n.a.
190
n.a.
12
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
100
n.a.
78
n.a.
22
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 27
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
2273
n.a.
27
n.a.
2246
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 male name

Recent statistics trend[7][8][12][9]:Name statistics for Jo (m)

Sources: [7] [8] [12] [9]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[12]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Jo (m)


References

  1. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no