Kirsten

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Danish and Norwegian short form of Kirstine ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Kirstina

Name Day

Norway

13 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1932 ^[1]

Namesakes

Kirsten Målfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962), Norwegian opera singer

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		45881	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		4477	8829	0	0
Sweden[5]		790	1070	0	2
Finland[6]		n.a.	169	n.a	2
#: 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^[5][3][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi