Lara

From Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Nameguide note desktop.png

Nameguide note mobile.png

Rate this name:

5.00
(8 votes)



Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

Advertisement:


Origin and Meaning

1) Nordic spelling of Лара (Lara), a Russian short form of Larisa [1] [2] [3]

2) Finnish dialectal variant form of Laura [4]

3) Finnish variant form of Clara [4]

Related Names

Laara
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish
Lara
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Lare
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Larina, Larita

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Löruson Iceland

Female

Lörudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lara
Genitive: Laras
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lara
Genitive: Laran
Partitive: Laraa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Lara
Accusative: Löru
Dative: Löru
Genitive: Löru
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lara
Genitive: Laras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lara
Genitive: Laras

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[7]
1802 2029 1802 2026 0 3
Denmark Denmark[8]
860
n.a.
860
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
830
n.a.
830 0 0
Greenland Greenland[10]
6 166
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
24 28
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
537
n.a.
537
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

Name statistics for Lara (f) Sources: [7][8][12][9]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no