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Moira

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) English spelling of Máire [1] [2]

2) Latin spelling of Greek Μοιρα (Moira) = 'fate', 'detiny' [2]

Related Names

Moira ♀
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
Moyra ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Moira
Genitive: Moiras
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Moira
Genitive: Moiran
Partitive: Moiraa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Moira
Genitive: Moiras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Moira
Genitive: Moiras

Further Information

Strongest 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&
Sweden Sweden[3]
49 81 49 81 0 0
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
 44
n.a.
 44 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
18
n.a.
 18
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[6]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
38
n.a.
 38
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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 Moira.


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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