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Female Name
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Катя (Katya), a Russian pet form of Jekaterina [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See also Katinka, Katjana
Male
Katjuson
|
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Female
Katjudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Katja
|
Genitive: |
Katjas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Katja
|
Accusative: |
Katju
|
Dative: |
Katju
|
Genitive: |
Katju
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Katja
|
Genitive: |
Katjan
|
Partitive: |
Katjaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Katja
|
Genitive: |
Katjas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Katja
|
Genitive: |
Katjas
|
Name Days
Finland
|
25 November
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
25 November
|
Sweden
|
25 November
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Katja Ingergard Geiger ("Katja of Sweden", born Karin Ingegerd Hallberg, 12 January 1920 – 25 January 2017), Swedish fashion designer
- Katja Maria Riosianu Medbøe (3 December 1945 – ca 13 November 1996), Norwegian actress
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
18167 |
n.a. |
18167 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[11] |
|
4035 |
n.a. |
4035 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[12] |
|
2237 |
2838 |
2237 |
2835 |
0 |
3 |
Greenland[13] |
|
14 |
24 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
7 |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
527 |
n.a. |
527 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [12][11][15][10]
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no