Beda

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Latinised from of the Old English male (!) name Bede

Old English bede = 'begging man, praying man' ^[1]

Related Names

Beda	♀
Bedin	♂
Bedine	♀

See also Bedda

Name Days

Denmark

26 May

Faroe Islands

26 May

Sweden

27 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1808 ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Västergötland ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		192	539	1	2
Denmark[3]		5	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		5	22	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	652	n.a	3
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Beda.

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

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