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Female Name
Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
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Violet
Image by H. Zell,[1] licensed under Creative Commons |
1) Latin viola = 'violet (flower)' [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
2) Short form of Violetta [5] [6]
Related Names
See also Ibolya, Lola, Vaila, Violetta, Vivi, Orvokki
Combinations
For combinations see VIOL
Male
Violuson
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Female
Violudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Viola
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Genitive: |
Violas
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Viola
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Genitive: |
Violan
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Partitive: |
Violaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Viola
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Accusative: |
Violu
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Dative: |
Violu
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Genitive: |
Violu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Viola
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Genitive: |
Violas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Viola
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Genitive: |
Violas
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Name Days
Finland
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3 June
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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3 June
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Sweden
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29 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Forsberg, 18 November 1910 – 20 October 1994), Swedish textile designer
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[13] |
|
3391 |
49326 |
3391 |
49319 |
0 |
7 |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
10921 |
n.a. |
10921 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[15] |
|
1844 |
n.a. |
1844 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
22 |
56 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[17] |
|
2 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
351 |
n.a. |
351 |
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
Sources: [13][15][18][14]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by H. Zell, source & license
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables