Kali 1

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Male Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist:
See Kali 2 for the Finnish male version
See Kali 3 for the Greenlandic male version
See Kali f for the Greek female version

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name and byname

Old Norse kala = 'to freeze', 'to be cold' [1]

Related Names

Kala
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Kale
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Danish Old Swedish
Kali
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic Old Norse

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kalason Iceland

Female

Kaladóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kali
Accusative: Kala
Dative: Kala
Genitive: Kala

Further Information

In old Runic scripts, Kali is sometimes difficult to distinguish from Galli and Kalli [1]

Earliest Documented 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[3]
43 66 39 60 4 6
Denmark Denmark[4]
19
n.a.
17
n.a.
2
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[5]
7 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
7 0 0
n.a.
7
Iceland Iceland[7]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
9
n.a.
9
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 Kali.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no