Barbro

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish variant form (originally inflected form) of Barbra (see Barbara) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Babbo
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Finish Swedish
Barbo
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Norwegian
Barbro
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Barbru
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Barbro
Genitive: Barbros
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Barbro
Genitive: Barbron
Partitive: Barbroa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Barbro
Genitive: Barbros
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Barbro
Genitive: Barbros

Name Days

Norway Norway

4 December

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

4 December

Sweden Sweden

4 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 52,848 people were named Barbro (percentage of first or only given name: 70 %) [9]

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[12]
21051 38330 21048 38316 3 14
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
1793
n.a.
1793 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
71
n.a.
71
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
1112
n.a.
1112
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Barbro (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Barbro (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Barbro (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
  12. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/