Ursula

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female diminutive form of Ursus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Latinisation of Yrsa [1] [6]

Related Names

Ursula
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 Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Úrsúla
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Ursulla
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian

See also Orsa, Suula, Ulla, Ursela, Ursila, Ursu, Ursukka, Urszula (Polish), Uschi (German)

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ursuluson Iceland

Female

Ursuludóttir Iceland

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
EY see Úrsúley

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ursula
Genitive: Ursulas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ursula
Genitive: Ursulan
Partitive: Ursulaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ursula
Accusative: Ursulu
Dative: Ursulu
Genitive: Ursulu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ursula
Genitive: Ursulas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ursula
Genitive: Ursulas

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

21 October

Finland Finland

21 October

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

21 October

Sweden Sweden

21 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1385 people were named Ursula (percentage of first or only given name: 55 %) [9]

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[11]
801 1712 801 1712 0 0
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
1822
n.a.
1822 0 0
Denmark Denmark[13]
547
n.a.
547
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
9 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
150
n.a.
150
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 Ursula.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no