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Norna

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse norn = probably related to a word meaning 'to whisper something to someone' [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Swedish norna (Lat. Calypso bulbosa), the name of an orchid (flower) [4]

Calypso bulbosa
Calypso bulbosa
Image by Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, United States Department of Agriculture,[5]
License: Public Domain

Related Names

Norna ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Norna
Genitive: Nornan
Partitive: Nornaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Norna
Genitive: Nornas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Norna
Genitive: Nornas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Northern Mythology

  • The Norns are the 'women of destiny'

Trivia

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[7]
23 45 23 45 0 0
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 24
n.a.
 24 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
1
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
5
n.a.
 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Norna.


References

  1. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, United States Department of Agriculture, source & license
  6. ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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