Barbro

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Swedish variant form (originally inflected form) of Barbra ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Barbara

Name Days

Norway

4 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

4 December

Sweden

4 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1484 ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Nordland ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		26854	45973	5	14
Norway[4]		773	1186	0	0
Denmark[5]		79	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	1766	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi