Bertil

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Male Male Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Bertilo [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Bertilo

Combinations

For combinations see BERTIL (name element)

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bertilinpoika Finland
Bertilsen Denmark Norway
Bertilson Norway Sweden
Bertilssen Norway
Bertilsson Iceland Norway Sweden
Bertilssøn Norway
Bertilsøn Norway

Female

Bertilintytär Finland
Bertilsdatter Denmark Norway
Bertilsdotter Sweden
Bertilsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bertil
Genitive: Bertils
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bertil
Genitive: Bertilin
Partitive: Bertiliä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bertil
Accusative: Bertil
Dative: Bertil
Genitive: Bertils
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bertil
Genitive: Bertils
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bertil
Genitive: Bertils

Name Days

Norway Norway

24 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

24 August

Sweden Sweden

11 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden:
    • ca 1390 [6]
    • late 14th century [9]
  • Norway:
    • 15th century [9]
  • Denmark:
    • appears in the baptism registers of Skast herred (Næsbjerg, Øse, Fåborg, Grimstrup, Årre) in the period 1656-1660 [1]
    • 19th century [3] [9]
  • Iceland:
    • In the census of 2008 [9]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 111080 people were named Bertil (percentage of first or only given name: 19 %) [10]

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 Sweden[13]
10174 56450 0 3 10174 56447
Denmark Denmark[14]
1214
n.a.
0
n.a.
1214
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
1552 0 0
n.a.
1552
Greenland Greenland[16]
0 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
255
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
255
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Bertil (m) Sources: [13][14][18][15]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Bertil (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Bertil (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. 11.0 11.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no