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Gilbert

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

German and English short form of Gisilberht [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Gilbert ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish
Gilberth ♂ Swedish
Gillbert ♂ Swedish

See also Gil, Gilberto

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gilbertsen Norway
Gilbertson Norway Sweden
Gilbertsson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden

Female

Gilbertsdatter Norway
Gilbertsdotter Sweden
Gilbertsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Name Day

Sweden Sweden

16 March

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gilbert
Genitive: Gilberts
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Gilbert
Accusative: Gilbert
Dative: Gilberti
Genitive: Gilberts
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gilbert
Genitive: Gilbertin
Partitive: Gilbertiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Gilbert
Accusative: Gilbert
Dative: Gilbert / Gilberti
Genitive: Gilberts
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gilbert
Genitive: Gilberts
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gilbert
Genitive: Gilberts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2681 people were named Gilbert (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [10]

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[11]
433 1971 0 11 433 1960
Denmark Denmark[12]
218
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 218
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 291 0 0
n.a.
 291
Iceland Iceland[14]
15 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
90
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 90
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
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 Gilbert.


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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