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Verena

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swiss-German name of uncertain meaning; theories include

1) From Latin verêri = 'to respect', 'to fear' [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) From Latin verus = 'true' [4]

Related Names

Verena ♀
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
Werena ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Verene ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Vreni ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

See also Vera, Verina

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Verena
Genitive: Verenas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Verena
Genitive: Verenan
Partitive: Verenaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Verena
Genitive: Verenas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Verena
Genitive: Verenas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

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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[5]
95 162 95 162 0 0
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 177
n.a.
 177 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
75
n.a.
 75
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
3 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
82
n.a.
 82
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Verena.


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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