Benedikte

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Benedicta (see also -e) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Benedicta

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Benedikte
Genitive: Benediktes
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Benedikte
Genitive: Benediktes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Benedikte
Genitive: Benediktes

Name Day

Norway 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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[6]
1219
n.a.
1219
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
59 258
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
39 147 39 147 0 0
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
10
n.a.
10 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Benedikte (f) Sources: [8][6][11][9]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Benedikte (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no