Brynhild

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Brynhildr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Brynhildr

Name Day

Norway

16 August

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Brynhild
Accusative:	Brynhild
Dative:	Brynhild
Genitive:	Brynhildar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1877 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		524	741	0	0
Denmark[5]		46	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		18	69	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	50	n.a	2
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi