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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
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
See also Gørvel
Cognates
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Gerhild
|
Genitive: |
Gerhilds
|
- 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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
9 |
24 |
9 |
24 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[9] |
|
3 |
n.a. |
3 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
2 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[11] |
|
1 |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
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
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/