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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Nilla m for the male version.
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of names ending in -nilla, -nille [1] [2] [3]
2) Variant forms of Nelli and its variant forms [2]
Related Names
See also Nila, Nilda, Nilette
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Nilla
|
Genitive: |
Nillas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Nilla
|
Genitive: |
Nillan
|
Partitive: |
Nillaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Nilla
|
Genitive: |
Nillas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Nilla
|
Genitive: |
Nillas
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 120 people were named Nilla f (percentage of first or only given name: 74 %) [4]
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& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
376 |
623 |
376 |
623 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
220 |
n.a. |
170 |
n.a. |
50 |
Denmark[9] |
|
20 |
n.a. |
20 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
0 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
31 |
n.a. |
31 |
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. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[7][9][11][8]:
Sources: [7] [9] [11] [8]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Nilla (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no