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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Birgitta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Birgitta
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Birgitte
|
Genitive: |
Birgittes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Birgitte
|
Genitive: |
Birgiten / Birgitten
|
Partitive: |
Birgitteä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Birgitte
|
Genitive: |
Birgittes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Birgitte
|
Genitive: |
Birgittes
|
Name Day
Norway
|
7 October
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Karen Birgitte Federspiel (6 September 1925 – 2 February 2005), Danish actress
- Birgitte Price (née Bruun, 29 April 1934 – 17 July 1997), Danish actress
- Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982), Danish actres
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[7] |
|
14568 |
n.a. |
14568 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
245 |
640 |
245 |
640 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[9] |
|
36 |
104 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
94 |
n.a. |
94 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[11] |
|
3 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
2661 |
n.a. |
2661 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [8][7][12][10]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no