Onerva

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Female/Male Both Genders Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish onerva = 'the hay grown after harvesting' [1]

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One
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Onerva ♀/♂
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Onervo
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Onukka
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See also Erva, Nerkki

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Onerva
Genitive: Onervan
Partitive: Onervaa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Onerva
Genitive: Onervas

Name Day

Finland Finland

14 August

Further Information

Today, Onerva is used as a female name. Until ca 1945, Onerva has been used as a male name as well. [2]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 193 people were named Onerva (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [3]

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 Finland[2]
n.a.
11096
n.a.
10947
n.a.
149
Sweden Sweden[4]
39 278 39 278 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Onerva.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/