Torborg

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish form of Þorbjǫrg ^[1]

2) Variant form of Torbjørg ^{[2] [3]}

Related Names

See Þorbjǫrg

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

19 September

Sweden

17 June

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Torborg
Accusative:	Torborg
Dative:	Torborg
Genitive:	Torborgar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1522 ^[1]

Namesakes

"Torborg" is the title of a poem of Gustaf Fröding

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		443	1711	0	3
Norway[5]		95	149	0	0
Denmark[6]		4	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	130	n.a	3
#: 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 Torborg.

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi