Smilla
Smilla is a feminine given name.
Origin and meaning
The name Smilla was the 1992 published book Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg known. In the book it is an abbreviation of the Greenlandic name Smillaaraq , which itself is a construction from the Greenlandic name Miillaaraq ("hum of an insect") and the Danish words mild ("mild") and smile ("smile").
distribution
The name Smilla has appeared in the Swedish name statistics since 1998 and reached its greatest popularity to date in 2002 with a frequency of around 0.28%.
Name bearers
Real people
- Smilla Luuk (* 1997), Swedish author
Fictional people
- Smilla Jaspersen, main character in Miss Smilla's flair for snow
- Smilla Rabe, main character in the youth book Indigosommer by Antje Babendererde