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Bent

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish form of Beinkt [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Beinkt

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bentsen Denmark Norway
Bentson Norway
Bentssen Norway
Bentsson Old Swedish Iceland Sweden
Bentssøn Norway
Bentsøn Norway
Bentzen Norway
Bentzon Norway
Bentzön Old Swedish
Bentzøn Norway

Female

Bentdatter Norway
Bentsdatter Denmark Norway
Bentsdotter Norway Sweden
Bentsdóttir Iceland
Bentzdatter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bent
Genitive: Bents
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bent
Genitive: Bentin
Partitive: Bentiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bent
Accusative: Bent
Dative: Bent
Genitive: Bents
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bent
Genitive: Bents
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bent
Genitive: Bents

Name Day

Norway Norway

21 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 277 people were named Bent (percentage of first or only given name: 87 %) [7]

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[8]
19159
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 19158
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
285 1003 0 492 285 511
Greenland Greenland[10]
77 195
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
17 71
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 94
n.a.
 33
n.a.
 61
Norway Norway[13]
2147
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 2147
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.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Bent (m) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Bent (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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