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Bengt
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Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Benkt [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Beinkt
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Bengtsen |
|
| Bengtson |
|
| Bengtssen |
|
| Bengtsson |
|
| Bengtssøn |
|
| Bengtsøn |
|
| Bengtzen |
|
| Bengtzon |
|
Female
| Bengtsdatter |
|
| Bengtsdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengts |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengtin |
| Partitive: | Bengtiä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengts |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengts |
Name Days
|
|
21 March |
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21 March |
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21 March |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Bengt Ryno Berndtsson (26 January 1933 – 4 June 2015), Swedish football winger nicknamed Fölet = 'the Foal'
- Bengt Robert Holmström, * 18 April 1949, Finlandswedish economist and Nobel laureate
(Economics, 2016) - Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson, * 21 May 1934, Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1982)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 113,406 people were named Bengt (percentage of first or only given name: 92 %) [8]
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& | |
| Sweden[10] |
  |
39590 | 87675 | 0 | 14 | 39590 | 87661 |
| Finland[11] |
  |
n.a. |
4098 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
4098 |
| Denmark[12] |
 |
245 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
245 | n.a. |
 Iceland[13] |
  |
0 | 2 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[14] |
|
1642 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
1642 | n.a. |
 Greenland[15] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
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. |
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Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Bengt (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables