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Barbro
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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
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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| Barbo | ♀ |  |
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| Barbro | ♀ |   |
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| Barbru | ♀ |  |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Barbro |
| Genitive: | Barbros |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Barbro |
| Genitive: | Barbron |
| Partitive: | Barbroa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Barbro |
| Genitive: | Barbros |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Barbro |
| Genitive: | Barbros |
Name Days
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4 December |
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4 December |
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4 December |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Barbro Margareta Eriksdotter Hiort af Ornäs (28 August 1921 – 28 November 2015), Swedish actress
- Barbro Westerholm (née Lagergren, born 16 juni 1933), Swedish doctor and politician
- Barbro "Lill-Babs" Margareta Svensson (9 March 1938 - 3 April 2018), Swedish singer and actress
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[12] |
 |
21051 | 38330 | 21048 | 38316 | 3 | 14 |
| Finland[13] |
 |
n.a. |
1793 | n.a. |
1793 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[14] |
 |
71 | n.a. |
71 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Iceland[15] |
  |
3 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[16] |
|
1112 | n.a. |
1112 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 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. |
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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Barbro (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/