Maia

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Maja [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Maja

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Maiuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Maiudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Maia
Genitive: Maias
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Maia
Accusative: Maiu
Dative: Maiu
Genitive: Maiu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Maia
Genitive: Maian
Partitive: Maiaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Maia
Accusative: Maiu
Dative: Maiu
Genitive: Maiu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Maia
Genitive: Maias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Maia
Genitive: Maias

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

7 May

Norway Norway

7 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Maia (percentage of first or only given name: 81 %) [8]

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[9]
479 580 479 580 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10]
685
n.a.
685
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
424
n.a.
424 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
1021
n.a.
1021
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 Maia (f) Sources: [9][10][14][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Maia (f) Sources: [15]


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. details see Name Statistic tables