Birk

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

German short form of Berkhard [1]

Related Names

See Burkhard

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Birk
Genitive: Birks
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Birk
Genitive: Birkin
Partitive: Birkiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Birk
Genitive: Birks
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Birk
Genitive: Birks

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

  • Birk was a heavy storm in Norway in November 2017.

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[2]
1292
n.a.
0
n.a.
1292
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[3]
457 637 0 8 457 629
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
58 0 0
n.a.
58
Greenland Greenland[5]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
1717
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
1717
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
0 1
n.a.
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 Birk (m) Sources: [3][2][6][4]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Birk (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  3. 3.0 3.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. 4.0 4.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/