Idonea Forename
Approximately 76 people bear this name
Idonea Forename Definition:
A female name. this is a puzzling name, but it seems probable that it is related to the Old Norse Idhuna, the name of a goddess of spring, derived from the Old Norse idh ‘work’, ‘labour’. It can scarcely be (what it looks like) the Latin adj idonea from idoneus ‘suitable’, for there is no trace of it in the Romance languages.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 97% | 19 | 1:11,275,587 | 133,736 |
| Peru | 100% | 18 | 1:1,766,192 | 19,056 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 12 | 1:1,408,507 | 21,461 |
| Chile | 100% | 4 | 1:4,401,802 | 21,957 |
| El Salvador | - | 4 | 1:1,585,446 | 8,153 |
| England | 100% | 3 | 1:18,534,307 | 106,915 |
| Italy | 87% | 3 | 1:20,354,030 | 45,650 |
| United States | - | 2 | 1:181,268,488 | 793,593 |
| Mexico | 100% | 2 | 1:62,072,214 | 96,650 |
| Wales | 100% | 1 | 1:3,094,309 | 16,222 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1 | 1:11,490,041 | 43,727 |
| Venezuela | - | 1 | 1:30,201,893 | 231,239 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 1 | 1:1,361,419 | 34,512 |
| South Africa | 100% | 1 | 1:54,532,649 | 471,300 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 1 | 1:73,827,605 | 146,761 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
The alternate forms: Idonéa (1) are calculated separately.
Idonea (91) may also be a surname.
Idonea Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. this is a puzzling name, but it seems probable that it is related to the Old Norse Idhuna, the name of a goddess of spring, derived from the Old Norse idh ‘work’, ‘labour’. It can scarcely be (what it looks like) the Latin adj idonea from idoneus ‘suitable’, for there is no trace of it in the Romance languages. E. Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch records a f. name Idina, which is probably the same. It was common in England from the end of the 12th C; in Latin it appears as Idonea, Idonia, in the vernacular as Ideny, Idony, Edony. Examples of the name occur in later centuries. The surnames Edney, Idney, and possibly Iddon, Idden, are derived from it.
Idonea Curia Regis Rolls 1201-1218, Feudal Aids 1284, 1303, 1346, Times 4 Feb 1882. Ydonea Curia Regis Rolls 1203, 1207. Idonia Yorks Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379. Edonia Yorks Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379. Idony Hundred Rolls 1273. Ideny Beetley, Norf Registers 1644. Edney Nottinghamshire Parish Registers1754.
An old baptismal name derived from the Latin idoneus, fit, meet, proper.
A Latin name, meaning: Proper.
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