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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Benedicta (see also -e) [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Benedicta
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Benedikte
|
Genitive: |
Benediktes
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Benedikte
|
Genitive: |
Benediktes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Benedikte
|
Genitive: |
Benediktes
|
Name Day
Norway
|
8 October
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 64 people were named Benedikte (percentage of first or only given name: 17 %) [5]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[6] |
|
1219 |
n.a. |
1219 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
|
59 |
258 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
39 |
147 |
39 |
147 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
10 |
n.a. |
10 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[10] |
|
1 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
1426 |
n.a. |
1426 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: 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
Sources: [8][6][11][9]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no