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Vega

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Aquila chrysaetos Flickr.jpg
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 ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Wega ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Vega
Genitive: Vegas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Vega
Genitive: Vegan
Partitive: Vegaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Vega
Genitive: Vegas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Vega
Genitive: Vegas

Name Day

Sweden Sweden

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 (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[7]
1045 1986 1039 1952 6 34
Denmark Denmark[8]
1001
n.a.
 1001
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
127
n.a.
 127
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 78
n.a.
 78 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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 Vega (f) Sources: [7][8][9][10]


References

  1. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by 'Rocky', source & license
  2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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