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Rea

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant spelling of Rhea [1] [2] [3]

2) English short form of Andrea [1]

Related Names

Rea ♀
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
Reea ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Reuson Iceland

Female

Reudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Reas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Rean
Partitive: Reaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rea
Accusative: Reu
Dative: Reu
Genitive: Reu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Reas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rea
Genitive: Reas

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

8 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 44 people were named Rea (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %) [6]

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&
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 1023
n.a.
 1023 0 0
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 324
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
45 71 45 71 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10]
20
n.a.
 20
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
20
n.a.
 20
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
0 1
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 Rea.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
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