Lana 1

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Female Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Arabic name see Lana 2

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latin spelling of Лана (Lana), a Russian short form of names ending with -lana

2) English short form of Alana

Related Names

Lana

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See also Lania

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lönuson

Female

Lönudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Lana
Genitive:	Lanas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Lana
Genitive:	Lanan
Partitive:	Lanaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Lana
Accusative:	Lönu
Dative:	Lönu
Genitive:	Lönu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Lana
Genitive:	Lanas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Lana
Genitive:	Lanas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1889 (Berg, Troms)
• Greenland: 1954

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1940-1979
• Norway: 2005-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Dalarna

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Lana 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %)

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		1656	1772	1656	1772	0	0
Denmark		293	n.a.	293	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	169	n.a.	169	0	0
Iceland		19	23	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		14	31	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		451	n.a.	451	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.

 

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