Lea f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Lea m for the male version.

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Hebrew לֵאָה (Le'ah) = 'languid, weary, tired' [1] [2]

2) Hebrew 'wild cow' [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

3) Female form of Leo [1] [2] [4] [5] [7]

4) Short form of names ending with -lea [8]

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Lîa
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Liia
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Greenlandic

See also Leana, Lessu, Li

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Leuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Leudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lea
Genitive: Leas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Lea
Accusative: Leu
Dative: Leu
Genitive: Leu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lea
Genitive: Lean
Partitive: Leaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Lea
Accusative: Leu
Dative: Leu
Genitive: Leu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lea
Genitive: Leas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lea
Genitive: Leas

Name Days

Finland Finland

5 January

Norway Norway

28 June

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

5 January

Sweden Sweden

26 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • In the Old Testament, Lea was the wife of Jakob and the mother of Ruben.

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 632 people were named Lea f (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [11]

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[12]
n.a.
19534
n.a.
19531
n.a.
3
Denmark Denmark[13]
6391
n.a.
6389
n.a.
2
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[14]
3349 4591 3345 4582 4 9
Iceland Iceland[15]
110 271
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
85 260
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
2056
n.a.
2056
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[14][13][17][12]:Name statistics for Lea (f)

Sources: [14] [13] [17] [12]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[17]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Lea (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no