Laura

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Italian short form of Laurentia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Lára
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Icelandic
Laura
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Laure
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Lauri
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Danish
Laurie
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Laury Danish Swedish
Lavra
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Lávrá
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Sami

See also Lalla, Lape, Lara, Larisa, Laurel, Laurella, Lauretta, Laurina, Laurukka, Lâvara, Lora

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lauruson Faroe Islands

Female

Laurudóttir Faroe Islands

Combinations

For combinations see LAUR (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Laura
Genitive: Lauras
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Laura
Accusative: Lauru
Dative: Lauru
Genitive: Lauru
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Laura
Genitive: Lauran
Partitive: Lauraa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Laura
Genitive: Lauras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Laura
Genitive: Lauras

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

15 January

Finland Finland

18 January

Norway Norway

15 January

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

18 January

Sweden Sweden

15 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2658 people were named Laura (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %) [9]
  • Laura was a heavy storm in Denmark and Sweden in March 2020.

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&
Denmark Denmark[12]
18125
n.a.
18125
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
33502
n.a.
33502 0 0
Sweden Sweden[13]
3961 5738 3958 5734 3 4
Iceland Iceland[14]
126 149
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
89 174
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
2049
n.a.
2049
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 Laura (f) Sources: [13][12][16][10]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Laura (f) Sources: [17]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Laura (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Laura (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Laura (f)


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. 11.0 11.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. details see Name Statistic tables