Berit

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Berita ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Berita

Name Days

Norway

7 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

1 February

Sweden

13 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Berit
Accusative:	Berit
Dative:	Berit
Genitive:	Beritar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1880 ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Dalarna ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		20776	32265	0	0
Norway[6]		12159	19214	0	0
Denmark[7]		5215	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	2338	n.a	3
#: 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^[5][7][6][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

Sources: ^{[5] [7] [6] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi