Lyra

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Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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

Lyre (reconstruction)
Image by Steven Plunkett,^[1]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Lyra	♀
Lýra	♀

Statistics

Name Count per Country

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Country	Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[2]	48	75	0	0
Denmark^[3]	36	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway^[4]	31	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland^[5]	n.a.	15	0	0
^#: 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.

Sources: ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lyra.

References

↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Steven Plunkett, source & license
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi

[1] Wikimedia Commons: Image by Steven Plunkett, source & license

[scb.se-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/

[dst.dk-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk

[ssb.no-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no

[vrf.fi-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi

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