Betty

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) English pet form of Elisabet (see also Bet) ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

2) Pet form of Beata ^[1]

3) Pet form of Berta ^[2]

4) Pet form of Barbara ^[2]

Related Names

Betti	♀
Bettie	♀
Betty	♀
Bettý	♀
Petti	♀

Name Day

Norway

8 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1673 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		2436	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		931	2121	0	0
Norway[7]		194	475	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	715	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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][5][7][8]:

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

References

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