Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Lahja

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Female/Male Both Genders Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish lahja = 'gift' [1]

Related Names

Lahja ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Lahjukka ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Lahjuska ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also Lalla

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lahja
Genitive: Lahjan
Partitive: Lahjaa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lahja
Genitive: Lahjas

Name Day

Finland Finland

7 August

Further Information

Until 1967 Lahja was a name for both genders in Finland, although preferably for females. Afterwards, it has been given only to girls.

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 199 people were named Lahja (percentage of first or only given name: 70 %) [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&
Finland Finland[2]
n.a.
 13973
n.a.
 13439
n.a.
 534
Sweden Sweden[4]
92 216 92 214 0 2
Denmark Denmark[5]
1
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Lahja.


References

  1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  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. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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