Herbert

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of the Old High German name Heribert ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Heribert

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

16 March

Sweden

16 March

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Herbert
Accusative:	Herbert
Dative:	Herberti
Genitive:	Herberts

- Faroese
Nominative:	Herbert
Accusative:	Herbert
Dative:	Herberti
Genitive:	Herberts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1647 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	0	963	7024
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	269	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	57	138
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	1404
#: 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 Herbert.

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

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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