Harriet

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

English form of Henriette ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Hariet	♀
Harriet	♀
Hattie	♀

Name Days

Norway

22 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 January

Sweden

10 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1805 ^[1]

Namesakes

Harriet Löwenhjelm (18 February 1887 - 24 May 1918), Swedish writer

Harriet Sofie Bosse (19 February 1878 – 2 November 1961), Swedish–Norwegian actress

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		3993	9199	0	0
Denmark[4]		462	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		328	764	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	2055	n.a	1
#: 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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi