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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Icelandic
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Norse sif = 'wife', 'bride' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) Old Norse sifjar = 'affinity', 'connexion by marriage' [1] [2] [6] [3]
3) Old Norse sif = 'kinship' [7]
4) Short form of Ellisif and its variant forms [1]
Related Names
See also Sivan, Siviä
For male forms see Sive m
Combinations
For combinations see SIV (name element)
Male
Sifjarson
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Female
Sifjardóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Sif
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Genitive: |
Sifs
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Sif
|
Accusative: |
Sif
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Dative: |
Sif
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Genitive: |
Sifjar
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Sif
|
Genitive: |
Sifs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Sif
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Genitive: |
Sifs
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Norse Mythology
- Sif is an Ásynja with golden hair, believed to help crops grow. She was originally married to Njǫrðr and became the wife of Þórr after the war against the Vanir. She is the mother of Ullr. When Loki cut off all her hair out of pure malice, Þórr took Loki and would have broken every bone in his body if he had not sworn to get the Svartálfar to make hair which would grow like real hair for Sif out of gold. Loki went to the dwarfs Brokkr and Sindri who forged Sif's hair. [2] [9] [10] [4]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[11] |
|
1524 |
n.a. |
1523 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
|
187 |
1554 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[13] |
|
196 |
375 |
189 |
366 |
7 |
9 |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
11 |
n.a. |
11 |
0 |
0 |
Norway[15] |
|
27 |
n.a. |
27 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Sif.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/