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Thelma

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Norwegian female form of Tellev (see ÞórlæifR) [1]

2) Name invented by the novelist Marie Corelli for her novel Thelma (1887). Maybe derived from 1), maybe inspired by the Greek word thelema, which means 'wish, will'. A Nordic equivalent name is Ósk

Related Names

Telma ♀
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
Thelma ♀
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
Tälma ♀ Swedish

See also Tilma

For male forms see Telmar

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Thelmuson Iceland

Female

Thelmudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Thelma
Genitive: Thelmas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Thelma
Genitive: Thelman
Partitive: Thelmaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Thelma
Accusative: Thelmu
Dative: Thelmu
Genitive: Thelmu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Thelma
Genitive: Thelmas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Thelma
Genitive: Thelmas

Name Day

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

5 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 163 people were named Thelma (percentage of first or only given name: 72 %) [5]

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 Sweden[6]
734 879 734 879 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
485 538
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 384
n.a.
 384 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
66
n.a.
 66
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
492
n.a.
 492
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Thelma (f) Sources: [6][9][10][8]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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