Beatrice

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Italian form of Beatrix ^{[1] [2]}

2) Nordic spelling of Béatrice ^{[1] [3]}

Related Names

See Beatrix

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 December

Sweden

2 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1834 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		4137	9169	0	0
Denmark[5]		171	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		165	290	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	1661	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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][5][6][7]:

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

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