Belinda

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) English modern form of Betlinde ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Extended form of Bella ^[3]

Related Names

Belenda	♀
Belinda	♀
Belinde	♀

See also Bella

Name Day

Norway

24 August

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Belinda
Accusative:	Belindu
Dative:	Belindu
Genitive:	Belindu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Belinda
Accusative:	Belindu
Dative:	Belindu
Genitive:	Belindu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1853 ^[4]
Norway: ca. 1940 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		989	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		577	932	0	0
Norway[7]		267	344	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	274	0	0
#: 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^[6][5][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi