Yrja

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Female Name

Usage

Icelandic
Norwegian
Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Yrjan and Yrjar (see Yrian)

2) From Old Norse yrja = 'drizzling rain'

3) Creative spelling of Irja

Related Names

Yrja

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Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Yrjuson

Female

Yrjudóttir

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Yrja
Accusative:	Yrju
Dative:	Yrju
Genitive:	Yrju

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Yrja
Genitive:	Yrjas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Yrja
Genitive:	Yrjas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1971

Trivia

• Yrja is an IKEA product name (table runner)
• Yrja is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		21	34	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		13	17	13	17	0	0
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		50	n.a.	50	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1	n.a.	1	0	0
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Yrja.