Linnea

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Linnea (also Linnéa, Linea, Linnaea, short form: Nea ) is a female given name of Swedish origin, which is mainly common in Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Moss bell (Linnaea borealis L.)

Origin and meaning

There are two derivations of the first name Linnea (stress on the penultimate syllable), which refer directly or indirectly to the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné .

  • According to the common derivation, the first name goes back to the botanical generic name of the Nordic moss bell . The moss bell (Linnaea borealis L.) is said to have been the favorite flower of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), who called himself Carl von Linné since he was raised to the nobility in 1756 . Linnaeus's patron Jan Frederik Gronovius gave the genus the name Linnaea in 1737.
  • In honor of Linnaeus, Swedish boys were named Linnaeus after Linnaeus' original family name. The feminine form of the given name Linnaea or Linnea was formed from this by moving .

Both derivations are likely, but not supported by literary sources.

On the origin of the family name Linnaeus: Linné's father was the first to adopt a family name in addition to the patronymic of his gender. He named the family after a huge linden tree (Swedish lind ) that stood on his father's farm.

distribution

Linnea (Swedish children's magazine), title vignette of the zero number from 1861 with a field of moss bells in the coniferous forest

Sweden. The first name came into use in Sweden at the earliest during Linnaeus (1707–1778) lifetime. The first name was known in Sweden at least since the 1840s. Apparently, Linnea was such a common first name in the 1860s that it even gave its name to a children's magazine. While the first name was not among the 10 most popular female first names in Sweden from 1920 until the end of the century, it made it into the top ranks since around 2000. This applies to the annual new births and the total proportion of the female population.

From Sweden, the first name spread to Finland and Norway. In other European countries, the first name seems to be uncommon or rare. This also applies to Austria and Switzerland. In Germany, the first name Linnea became common in the 1980s and is one of the rare first names.

Finland. In Finland around 400 women had the name Linnea / Linnéa until 1899. By the end of 2011 there were and are almost 33,000 women with the name Linnea / Linnéa and around 6,500 with the name Nea in Finland. The first name Linnea / Linnéa has never been one of the 10 most popular female first names since 1900.

Norway. The first name Linnea has been known in Norway since 1900. Up until 2000, the proportion of the female population was just over 0%, increased to 1.6% in 2006 and has since declined again. In 2011, Linnea / Linea ranked 5th in the statistics of the most popular female first names.

variants

  • Linnea
  • Linea
  • Linnaea, outdated form of the given name
  • Nea , short form of Linnea and a separate first name.
  • Lynnea, American (see also: Lynn )

name day

The name day is in Sweden on May 13 and in Finland the 3. August .

Name bearers

First name

Fictional characters

  • Linnea is the title character in a children's book series by Kirsten Boie .
  • Linnéa is the title character in children's non-fiction books by Christina Björk from Sweden.
  • Linnéa is the title of a song by Evert Taube .

Others

literature

  • Emil Giger: Linnaea borealis L., a monographic study . Zurich 1912; ethz.ch (PDF).
  • Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle, Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of First Names . Oxford 2006, p. 392.
  • Linnea, Nea . In: Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Duden. The great first name dictionary . Mannheim 2007.
  • Linea, Linnea, Nea . In: Wilfried Seibicke: Historical German first name book . Volume 3. Berlin 2000.
  • Linea, nea . In: Wilfried Seibicke: Historical German first name book . Volume 5. Berlin 2007.
  • Gunnar Tibell (Executive Editor): Linnea borealis . Uppsala 2008, linnaeus.uu.se
  • Brita Tornell: Linnea: tidning för barn utg.av Uncle Adam 1861-1871 . Gothenburg 1982.

Web links

Wiktionary: Linnea  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

General

  • " Linnea (navn) " (Norwegian Wikipedia): Statistics on the frequency of names in Sweden, Finland and Norway between 2005–2007 (Version: 6 November 2011 08:31).
  • Popular first names . (Germany 1890-today, country lists, with references).
  • Nordic Names.
  • firstname.de - 87,000 first names from all over the world

statistics

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kohlheim 2007 , p. 268.
  2. ↑ Tibell 2008 .
  3. ↑ Giger 1912 , p. 2.
  4. ^ Hanks 2006 .
  5. ↑ Seibicke 2000 , p. 73: "Swedish Movement to Linné"; English Wikipedia: Linnéa .
  6. ↑ English Wikipedia: Carl Linnaeus, Childhood .
  7. ↑ Kohlheim 2007 , p. 268.
  8. ↑ A search for "Linnea barn" (barn = child) in Google Books, limited to the 19th century, yields some references with birth announcements of girls with the first name Linnea, e. B. Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, volume 4, Örebro 1861-1862, p. 141, Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Linnea Johanna, f [ödde] (= born) 1842.
  9. ^ The magazine Linnea, tidning för barn (Linnea, magazine for children) was published 1862–1876 by the Swedish writer Carl Anton Wetterbergh . Libris (National Swedish Library System). Linnea was a fictional member of the editorial team. The title vignette of the magazine shows a field of moss bells in a coniferous forest ( Tornell 1982 ).
  10. ↑ See on the left of Statistics Sweden ; Nordic Names .
  11. ↑ See web link Popular First Names .
  12. ↑ See web link Statistics Austria .
  13. ↑ See web link Statistics Switzerland ; Statistics Zurich .
  14. ↑ Kohlheim 2007 , p. 268. Seibicke 2007 ; Weblink Popular first names .
  15. ↑ See web link Statistics Finland .
  16. ↑ See web links Statistics Norway ; Popular first names .
  17. ^ Swedish Wikipedia: Linnea (namn) .
  18. ↑ Name-day almanac of the University of Helsinki for 2012: almanakka.helsinki.fi ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 18. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / almanakka.helsinki.fi