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Ranka
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Old Norse
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Norse pet form of Ragnheiðr [1]
2) Old Norse pet form of Ragnhildr [1]
3) Slovenian rany, rano, ranni = 'early', 'early rising', 'early in the morning' [2]
4) Low German name of unknown origin and meaning [3]
Related Names
| Ranka | ♀ |   |
|
Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Rönkuson |
|
Female
| Rönkudóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ranka |
| Genitive: | Rankas |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ranka |
| Accusative: | Rönku |
| Dative: | Rönku |
| Genitive: | Rönku |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ranka |
| Genitive: | Rankas |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ranka |
| Genitive: | Rankas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of 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& | |
| Sweden[6] |
 |
36 | 40 | 36 | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[7] |
|
11 | n.a. |
11 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Iceland[8] |
  |
1 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
|
12 | n.a. |
12 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Finland[10] |
  |
n.a. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Greenland[11] |
|
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ranka.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/