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Merja
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Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) Finnish merja = 'Merya' (ancient Finno-Ugric tribal name of the Moscow region) [1] [2]
2) Finnish variant form of Marja [3]
Related Names
| Merja | ♀ |   |
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| Merjá | ♀ |  |
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| Merje | ♀ |  |
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See also Meria
Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Merja |
| Genitive: | Merjas |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Merja |
| Genitive: | Merjan |
| Partitive: | Merjaa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Merja |
| Genitive: | Merjas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Merja |
| Genitive: | Merjas |
Name Day
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27 April |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
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& | |
| Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
23029 | n.a. |
23029 | 0 | 0 |
| Sweden[6] |
 |
797 | 1022 | 797 | 1022 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[7] |
|
8 | n.a. |
8 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
|
28 | n.a. |
28 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[9] |
  |
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Merja.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/