Börje

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish younger form of Byrie [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Birgir

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Börjenpoika Finland
Börjeson Sweden
Börjesson Sweden

Female

Börjentytär Finland
Börjesdotter Sweden

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Börje
Genitive: Börjen
Partitive: Börjeä
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Börje
Genitive: Börjes

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

17 June

Sweden 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' [1]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

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 Sweden[6]
6507 20300 0 2 6507 20298
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
2798 0 0
n.a.
2798
Iceland Iceland[8]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[9]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
n.a.
n.a.
0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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. Swedish Regional Distribution for Börje (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  5. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/