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Yrsa

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name of uncertain meaning [1] [2] [3]

Theories include:

1) Younger variant form of Ýrr [4] [5] [6]

2) From an Ancient Norse unknown word for 'she-bear' with the same roots as Latin ursus (see also Ursula, which is used as a Latinisation of Yrsa as well) (unlikely!) [7] [8] [9] [3]

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Related Names

Yrsa ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish
Yrse ♀
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Yrsi ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Yrsuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Yrsudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Yrsa
Genitive: Yrsas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Yrsa
Accusative: Yrsu
Dative: Yrsu
Genitive: Yrsu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Yrsa
Genitive: Yrsan
Partitive: Yrsaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Yrsa
Accusative: Yrsu
Dative: Yrsu
Genitive: Yrsu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Yrsa
Genitive: Yrsas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Yrsa
Genitive: Yrsas

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

7 August

Sweden Sweden

21 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 162 people were named Yrsa (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [12]

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&
Denmark Denmark[13]
916
n.a.
 916
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[14]
249 386 249 386 0 0
Iceland Iceland[15]
65 99
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[16]
n.a.
 162
n.a.
 162 0 0
Norway Norway[17]
16
n.a.
 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
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 Yrsa (f) Sources: [14][13][17][16]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  5. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  6. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  9. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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