Vendela

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Wendela

Related Names

See Wendela

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Vendela
Genitive:	Vendelas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Vendela
Genitive:	Vendelan
Partitive:	Vendelaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Vendela
Genitive:	Vendelas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Vendela
Genitive:	Vendelas

Name Day

Sweden

8 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1402
• Norway: 1869 (Aker, Akershus)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1885-1919
• Norway: 1995-2000

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Gotland (19th century) see map
  • Medelpad (19th century) see map
  • Dalsland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Vendela Maria Kirsebom (born 12 January 1967), Norwegian-Swedish model and actress

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		2375	4060	2375	4060	0	0
Finland		n.a.	131	n.a.	131	0	0
Denmark		9	n.a.	9	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		108	n.a.	108	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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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Vendela (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.