Linnea

Linnea

1. A female given name from Latin of Swedish origin, occasionally used since the twentieth century.

• -ennial, Linean, Nilean, inlane, lean in, leanin', linean

Borrowed from Swedish Linnea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlinːeɑ/, [ˈlinːe̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -inːeɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Lin‧ne‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Lin‧nea

Linnea

1. a female given name from Swedish [from 19th c.]

• Nea, Neea

• Linnea is the 154^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 4,510 female individuals (and as a middle name to 15,828 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• -lainen, Anneli, alinen, lainen

Linnea

1. a female given name borrowed from Sweden in the nineteenth century

• Linnéa

A flower name coined in the eighteenth century, from Linnaea borealis, twinflower, named after the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778). His original family name Linnaeus was a Latinization of Swedish Lind (“linden tree”). First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1842 as Linnaea.

• IPA^(key): /lɪ²neːa/

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Linnea c (genitive Linneas)

1. a female given name

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 67 376 females with the given name Linnea (compared to 94 490 named Linnéa) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• Anneli