Börje

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish younger form of Byrie

Related Names

See Birgir

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Börjenpoika
Börjeson
Börjesson

Female

Börjentytär
Börjesdotter

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Börje
Genitive:	Börjen
Partitive:	Börjeä

- Swedish
Nominative:	Börje
Genitive:	Börjes

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

17 June

Sweden

9 June

Further Information

Börje has sometimes been used to name the first child of the family because it reminds of the Swedish vocabulary word börja = 'to begin, to start'

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1529

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1930-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Halland (19th century) see map

Trivia

• Börje is an IKEA product name (chair/chair cover)

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&
Sweden		6507	20300	0	2	6507	20298
Finland		n.a.	2798	0	0	n.a.	2798
Iceland		0	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		n.a.	n.a.	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Börje (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.