Herbjørg

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Female Name

Usage

Faroese
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Herbjǫrg

Related Names

See Heriburg

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Herbjargarson

Female

Herbjargardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Herbjørg
Genitive:	Herbjørgs

- Faroese
Nominative:	Herbjørg
Accusative:	Herbjørg
Dative:	Herbjørg
Genitive:	Herbjargar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Herbjørg
Genitive:	Herbjørgs

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1895

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1925-1935

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Nordland
  • Troms

Namesakes

• Herbjørg Margretha Wassmo (born 6 December 1942), Norwegian author

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&
Denmark		2	n.a.	2	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway		112	n.a.	112	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland		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 Herbjørg.