Ruth

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

German and English spelling of Rut ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Rut

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ruth
Accusative:	Ruth
Dative:	Ruth
Genitive:	Ruthar

Name Day

Denmark

8 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1621 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		13363	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		5706	14540	0	1
Norway[7]		4201	9707	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	2587	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^[6][5][7][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi