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Perla

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latin perla (Danish and Norwegian perle, Swedish pärla) = 'pearl' [1] [2] [3] [4]

Pearls
Pearls
Image by Uwakoya,[5]
license: public domain

2) Female form of Per [1]

Related Names

Perla ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Perle ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Perly ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Pärla ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

See also Pearl, Perlina

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Perluson Iceland

Female

Perludóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Perla
Genitive: Perlas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Perla
Genitive: Perlan
Partitive: Perlaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Perla
Accusative: Perlu
Dative: Perlu
Genitive: Perlu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Perla
Genitive: Perlas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Perla
Genitive: Perlas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Perla (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [8]

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[9]
209 380 209 380 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
99 178
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[11]
21
n.a.
 21
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 40
n.a.
 40 0 0
Norway Norway[13]
49
n.a.
 49
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Perla (f) Sources: [9][11][13][12]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Uwakoya, source & license
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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