Orka

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Female Name

Usage

Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Icelandic name of uncertain meaning

1) Old Norse orka = 'strength, power to work; work'

2) Old Norse orkn = 'a kind of seal'

3) Old Norse Orka = name of the river Orkla, former *Ork of unknown meaning, maybe derived from 1)

Related Names

Orka

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Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Orkuson

Female

Orkudóttir

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Orka
Accusative:	Orku
Dative:	Orku
Genitive:	Orku

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 2 January 2009

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&
Iceland		4	8	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland		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 Orka.