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Ranja 1

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Female Female Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Arabic name see Ranja 2

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish short form inspired by other short forms ending in -anja [1]

Related Names

Rania ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ranja ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ranya ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ranjuson Faroe Islands

Female

Ranjudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ranja
Genitive: Ranjas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ranja
Accusative: Ranju
Dative: Ranju
Genitive: Ranju
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ranja
Genitive: Ranjan
Partitive: Ranjaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ranja
Genitive: Ranjas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ranja
Genitive: Ranjas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ranja Hauglid (born 25 April 1945), Norwegian politician

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Ranja 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 62 %) [4]

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[5]
106 136 106 134 0 2
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 176
n.a.
 176 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
33
n.a.
 32
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
178
n.a.
 178
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Ranja (f) Sources: [11]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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