Nordic Names

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Otta f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Otta m for the male version.

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Ottilia [1]

2) Female form of Otto [1] [2] [3]

3) Short form of Lotta (see Lotte) [2]

4) Variant form of Ótta [4]

5) Female form of Ottar (see Óttarr) [2] [3]

5) In Sweden, Otta has also been associated with the vocabulary word åtta = 'eight' and been given to the eighth child of the family [1]

Related Names

Otta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Åtta ♀ Swedish

See also Otti

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ottuson Iceland

Female

Ottudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Otta
Genitive: Ottas
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Otta
Accusative: Ottu
Dative: Ottu
Genitive: Ottu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Otta
Genitive: Ottas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Otta
Genitive: Ottas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional 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&
Denmark Denmark[6]
4
n.a.
 4
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
0 4 0 4 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
4
n.a.
 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
  #: 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 Otta.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2023).
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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