Telma

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Thelma

Related Names

See Thelma

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Telmuson

Female

Telmudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Telma
Genitive:	Telmas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Telma
Genitive:	Telman
Partitive:	Telmaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Telma
Accusative:	Telmu
Dative:	Telmu
Genitive:	Telmu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Telma
Genitive:	Telmas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Telma
Genitive:	Telmas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1872 (Oslo)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • late 19th century - ca 1930
  • 1920-1940
  • 2005-2008
• Sweden:
  • 1865-1929

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Vest-Agder
  • Rogaland
• Sweden:
  • Västsverige
  • Nordsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 121 people were named Telma (percentage of first or only given name: 75 %)

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&
Iceland		275	305	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		171	195	171	195	0	0
Finland		n.a.	402	n.a.	402	0	0
Denmark		34	n.a.	34	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		139	n.a.	139	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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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