Gerhild

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish form of GæiRhildr [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) German name, combination of GEIR and HILD [5] [6]

Related Names

Gerhild
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Old Danish Swedish

See also Gørvel

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gerhild
Genitive: Gerhilds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gerhild
Genitive: Gerhilds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 37 people were named Gerhild (percentage of first or only given name: 43 %) [7]

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&
Sweden Sweden[8]
9 24 9 24 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
3
n.a.
3
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
2
n.a.
2 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 0
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gerhild.


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  6. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/