Birgitte

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Birgitta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Birgitta

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Birgitte
Genitive: Birgittes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Birgitte
Genitive: Birgiten / Birgitten
Partitive: Birgitteä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Birgitte
Genitive: Birgittes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Birgitte
Genitive: Birgittes

Name Day

Norway 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

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&
Denmark Denmark[7]
14568
n.a.
14568
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
245 640 245 640 0 0
Greenland Greenland[9]
36 104
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
94
n.a.
94 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Birgitte (f) Sources: [8][7][12][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Birgitte (f)


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no