Nea (first name)

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Nea (also Néa, Neah, Nean or Neea) is a short form of first names in -nea, especially the first name Linnea , but is also used as an independent first name . The first name is mainly common in Sweden and Finland and was rare until 2011.

Origin and meaning

Nea is often seen as the short form of Linnea, but is also used as a short form of Antinea, Janea, Minea, Phinea and other given names ending in -nea.

distribution

Germany. In Germany, the first name Nea has been in use since 1990 and is one of the very rare first names.

Finland. From 1900 to the end of 2011 there were and are about 6,500 women named Nea and 2,500 named Neea in Finland. In the first decade of the 21st century, 1% and 0.5% of the female population had the first name Nea and Neea, respectively.

Sweden. As an independent first name, Nea was one of the very rare first names from 2001 to 2011 (an average of 36 newborns per year with an upward trend). By the end of 2011, 651 women had the first name Nea.

variants

  • Néa, short form derived from Linnéa.
  • Neah, creative spelling of Nea.
  • Nean, Swedish nickname for Nea.
  • Neea, a Finnish short form of Linnea.

name day

There is no known name day for the first name Nea. If Nea is derived from another first name, its name day applies.

Name bearers

See also

literature

  • Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim (ed.): Duden. The great first name dictionary . 3rd edition Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 .
  • Wilfried Seibicke : Historic German name book, Vol. 3: L-Sat . De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016819-7 .
  • Wilfried Seibicke: Historical German first name book, Vol. 5: Supplements and corrections . De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019458-6 .

Web links

General

  • Baby-Vornamen.de [1] .
  • Popular first names (Germany 1890-today, country lists, with sources) [2] .
  • Familienbande24 [3] .
  • Nordic Names [4] .

statistics

  • Statistics Finland: National Population Register Center of Finland [5] .
  • Statistics Sweden: Statistics Sweden.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kohlheim 2007 ; Seibicke 2000 .
  2. ↑ See the Nordic Names web link . For the name Janea see z. B. the website Familienbande24 .
  3. ↑ Seibicke 2000 ; Seibicke 2007 .
  4. ↑ Weblink baby first names : Rank 912 (voting result on the website); Weblink Popular first names : 2011 not among the 500 most popular female first names.
  5. ↑ See on the left of Statistics Finland ; Nordic Names .
  6. ↑ See on the left of Statistics Sweden ; Nordic Names .
  7. ↑ See the Nordic Names web link .
  8. ↑ See the Nordic Names web link .
  9. ↑ See Neea (English Wiktionary); Web link Nordic Names .