Linnea

Linnéa English Proper noun en female Latin of Swedish origin, occasionally used since the twentieth century. Anagrams en aeilnn -ennial Linean Nilean inlane lean in leanin' linean Finnish Etymology fi sv Linnea. Pronunciation Proper noun fi female Swedish 19 Declension Linne a Related terms fi Nea, fi Neea Statistics dvv_20250813 5058 16322 140 References Anagrams fi aeilnn -lainen Anneli alinen lainen Norwegian Proper noun no proper noun no female borrowed from Sweden in the nineteenth century Swedish Alternative forms sv Linnéa Etymology A flower name coined in the eighteenth century, from Linnaea borealis species, twinflower, named after the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778). His original family name Linnaeus was a Latinization of Swedish sv Lind linden tree. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1842 as Linnaea genus. Pronunciation sv /lɪ²neːa/ sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Linnea.wav Proper noun c sv female References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 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. Anagrams sv aeilnn Anneli