Bera

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Female form of Biǫrn ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Biǫrn

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Bera
Accusative:	Beru
Dative:	Beru
Genitive:	Beru

- Faroese
Nominative:	Bera
Accusative:	Beru
Dative:	Beru
Genitive:	Beru

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Iceland: Middle Ages ^[1]
Norway: ca. 1890 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		13	21	0	0
Denmark[5]		6	n.a.	3	n.a
Sweden[6]		4	7	1	1
Finland[7]		n.a.	4	n.a	4
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Bera.

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [4] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi