Bettina

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Italian short form of Elisabettina, an extended form of Elisabet ^{[1] [2]}

2) Italian pet form of Betta ^[3]

Related Names

Bethina	♀
Bethine	♀
Betina	♀
Betine	♀
Betinna	♀
Bettina	♀
Bettine	♀

See also Tina

Name Days

Norway

8 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

19 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1863 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		6577	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		532	675	0	0
Sweden[6]		389	636	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	819	n.a	2
#: 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^[6][4][5][7]:

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

References

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