Birgit

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

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

Related Names

See Birgitta

Name Days

Faroe Islands

7 October

Norway

7 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 October

Sweden

13 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Birgit
Accusative:	Birgit
Dative:	Birgit
Genitive:	Birgitar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1879 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		21877	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		17793	29590	0	0
Norway[7]		2358	3706	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	5036	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]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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