Ronja

Ronja

Faroese

Proper noun

Ronja f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Ronja: Ronjuson
• daughter of Ronja: Ronjudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Ronja
Accusative	Ronju
Dative	Ronju
Genitive	Ronju

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Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish Ronja in the early 1980s (Astrid Lindgren's book was translated into Finnish in 1981).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈronjɑ]
• Hyphenation: Ron‧ja

Proper noun

Ronja

1. A female given name of modern usage.

Declension

Inflection of Ronja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		Ronja	Ronjat
genitive		Ronjan	Ronjien
partitive		Ronjaa	Ronjia
illative		Ronjaan	Ronjiin
		singular	plural
nominative		Ronja	Ronjat
accusative	nom.	Ronja	Ronjat
	gen.	Ronjan
genitive		Ronjan	Ronjien Ronjainrare
partitive		Ronjaa	Ronjia
inessive		Ronjassa	Ronjissa
elative		Ronjasta	Ronjista
illative		Ronjaan	Ronjiin
adessive		Ronjalla	Ronjilla
ablative		Ronjalta	Ronjilta
allative		Ronjalle	Ronjille
essive		Ronjana	Ronjina
translative		Ronjaksi	Ronjiksi
instructive		—	Ronjin
abessive		Ronjatta	Ronjitta
comitative		—	Ronjineen

Anagrams

• Jarno, Norja, norja, orjan

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German

Proper noun

Ronja

1. A female given name of Swedish origin.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Ronja

1. A female given name of Swedish origin.

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Swedish

Etymology

Coined by Astrid Lindgren for the heroine of the children's book Ronja rövardotter (1981) by taking the middle letters of Juronjaure, the Sami name of a lake in north Sweden, said to mean "lake by a hill".

• Lindgren was obviously looking for something that sounded familiar, like Sonja, a well established name in Sweden by 1981. Роня is a Russian pet form of several male and female given names, but the name Ronja was very rare in Scandinavia and Germany until 1981.

Proper noun

Ronja c (genitive Ronjas)

1. A female given name used in Sweden since 1981.

Further reading

• Ronia the Robber's Daughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia