Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Lorraine

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English and Scottish name deriving from the surname, denoting a migrant from the province of Lorraine in eastern France.

Lorraine is the French form of the Latin place name Lotharingia = 'territory of the people of Lothar (see Hlothar)'. [1] [2]

Related Names

Loraine ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Lorane ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Lorraine ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Lorena

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lorraine
Genitive: Lorraines
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lorraine
Genitive: Lorrainen
Partitive: Lorrainea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lorraine
Genitive: Lorraines
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lorraine
Genitive: Lorraines

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Lorraine began to be used as a female given name in the 19th century in England and Scotland [1] so the first usage in the Nordic countries has to be later

Strongest Period of Usage

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 Sweden[3]
85 183 85 183 0 0
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
 68
n.a.
 68 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
28
n.a.
 28
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[6]
1 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
57
n.a.
 57
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lorraine.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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