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Female Name
Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
1) East Danish and Swedish dialectal form of Marina [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Short form of Marenanna [4] [7]
3) Female form of Marni [3]
4) Extended form of Marn (see Maren) [7]
Related Names
See also Manna, Marni
For male forms see Marnar
Male
Marnuson
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Female
Marnudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see MARN (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Marna
|
Genitive: |
Marnas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Marna
|
Accusative: |
Marnu
|
Dative: |
Marnu
|
Genitive: |
Marnu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Marna
|
Genitive: |
Marnas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Marna
|
Genitive: |
Marnas
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[10] |
|
242 |
n.a. |
242 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
|
16 |
39 |
16 |
39 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[12] |
|
0 |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
4 |
n.a. |
4 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[14] |
|
1 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
99 |
n.a. |
99 |
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. |
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Sources: [16]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Marna (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables