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Líf

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse variant form of Hlíf ... [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) ... which has been early associated with Old Norse líf = 'life' (see also LIF) [1] [5] [3]

Related Names

Lif ♀
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Líf ♀
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 Icelandic Old Norse
Lífa ♀
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 Old Norse
Liff ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Liv ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Liw ♀
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Lív ♀
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 Faroese Icelandic
Liven ♀
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 Norwegian

See also Liva, Livia and Livius

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lífarson Iceland

Female

Lífardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Líf
Accusative: Líf
Dative: Líf
Genitive: Lífar

Further Information

Norse Mythology

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&
Iceland Iceland[7]
26 903
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
0 8 0 8 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
1
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 1 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
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 Líf.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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