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Sophie
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Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form (French, German) of Sophia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Sophia
Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Sophieson |
|
Female
| Sophiedóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sophie |
| Genitive: | Sophies |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sophie |
| Genitive: | Sophien |
| Partitive: | Sophieta |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sophie |
| Accusative: | Sophie |
| Dative: | Sophie |
| Genitive: | Sophie |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sophie |
| Genitive: | Sophies |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sophie |
| Genitive: | Sophies |
Name Days
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15 May |
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28 November |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
- Denmark:
- Top 16 in the 17th century in Sjælland [9]
- Top 20 in the 17th century in København [9]
- Early 20th century and 1970- [5]
- Norway:
- 2000-2008 [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& | |
| Sweden[10] |
  |
3700 | 7565 | 3700 | 7562 | 0 | 3 |
| Denmark[11] |
|
3208 | n.a. |
3207 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
| Finland[12] |
 |
n.a. |
1650 | n.a. |
1650 | 0 | 0 |
| Iceland[13] |
  |
23 | 38 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greenland[14] |
  |
0 | 10 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[15] |
|
1259 | n.a. |
1259 | 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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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no