Birte

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Danish short form of Birgitte (see Birgitta) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Danish variant form of Berte (see Berta) ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Birta	♀
Birtá	♀
Birte	♀
Birtha	♀
Birthe	♀

See also Birtine

Name Day

Norway

1 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1918 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		6527	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		509	680	0	0
Sweden[6]		127	181	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	10	n.a	3
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Birte.

Sources: ^{[6] [4] [5] [7]}

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. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi