Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Lyra

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

A constellation in the northern sky containing Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. The name of the harp-like instrument derives from Greek lyra, a foreign word of uncertain origin

Sutton Hoo lyre (reconstruction).jpg
Lyre (reconstruction)
Image by Steven Plunkett,[1]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Lyra ♀
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
Lýra ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

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[2]
69 103 69 103 0 0
Denmark Denmark[3]
46
n.a.
 46
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[4]
35
n.a.
 35
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 25
n.a.
 25 0 0
Iceland Iceland[6]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Lyra.


References

  1. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Steven Plunkett, source & license
  2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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