Nordic Names

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Lady

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

English name from the title 'lady', a younger form of Old English hlæfdige/hláfdige = 'one who kneads bread', a combination of hlaf = 'bread' and -dige = 'maid' (related to dægee = 'maker of dough') [1] [2]

Related Names

Lady ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Leidi ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Lejdi ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lady
Genitive: Ladys
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lady
Genitive: Ladys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lady
Genitive: Ladys

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 13 people were named Lady (percentage of first or only given name: 46 %) [3]


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[4]
41 94 41 94 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
19
n.a.
 18
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 14
n.a.
 14 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
42
n.a.
 42
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Lady.


References

  1. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. ↑ Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  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
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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