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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 [1] [2] [3]
2) English short form of Alana [2]
Related Names
Male
Lönuson
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Female
Lönudóttir
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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
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Lana 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %) [6]
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& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
1656 |
1772 |
1656 |
1772 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[8] |
|
293 |
n.a. |
293 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
169 |
n.a. |
169 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[10] |
|
19 |
23 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[11] |
|
14 |
31 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [7][8][12][9]
References
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no