Bertha

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Female Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Berta ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Berta

Name Day

Denmark

31 August

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Bertha
Accusative:	Berthu
Dative:	Berthu
Genitive:	Berthu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Denmark: 1345 (Skåne) ^[2]
Sweden: 1699 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		413	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		193	427	0	0
Sweden[5]		124	430	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	684	n.a	1
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[5] [3] [4] [6]}

References

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