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Vega
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Origin and Meaning
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| Eagle Image by 'Rocky',[1] licensed under Creative Commons |
The (Spanish) name of the brightest star in the constellation Lyra.
It derives from Arabic waqi = 'falling', which is an abbreviation of its full name an-nasr al-waqui = 'the falling eagle' as opposed to Altair, the brightest star in the constellation Aquila: at-ta'ir = 'flying eagle' [2] [3] [4] [5]
(According to Eva Brylla [6] it is not a falling eagle but a falling vulture)
Related Names
| Vega | ♀ |   |
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| Wega | ♀ |   |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Vega |
| Genitive: | Vegas |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Vega |
| Genitive: | Vegan |
| Partitive: | Vegaa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Vega |
| Genitive: | Vegas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Vega |
| Genitive: | Vegas |
Name Day
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24 April |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Namesakes
- Vega was the name of the ship of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his Arctic exploration voyage when he discovered the Northeast Passage (1878-1880) [3] [4]
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[7] |
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881 | 1708 | 4 | 29 |
| Denmark[8] |
|
812 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
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82 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Finland[10] |
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n.a. | 72 | 0 | 0 |
| #: 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
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References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by 'Rocky', source & license
- ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
