Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Batseba

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of the Hebrew name בַּת־שֶׁבַע (Bat-sheva) of uncertain meaning. Theories include:

1) Seventh daughter [1]

2) Daughter of the oath [1] [2] [3] [4]

3) Daughter of abundance [5] [6]

4) Corpulent one, voluptuous one [5] [6]

5) Daughter of the law [4]

Related Names

Bathseba ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Batseba ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Bathsheba (English), Betsabèa (Italian), Batse, Seepa

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Batsebuson Faroe Islands

Female

Batsebudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Batseba
Genitive: Batsebas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Batseba
Accusative: Batsebu
Dative: Batsebu
Genitive: Batsebu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Batseba
Genitive: Batseban
Partitive: Batsebaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Batseba
Genitive: Batsebas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Batseba
Genitive: Batsebas

Further Information

Period of Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 59 people were named Batseba (percentage of first or only given name: 5 %) [7]

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&
Greenland Greenland[8]
26 122
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
19 30 19 30 0 0
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 26
n.a.
 26 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
7
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
7
n.a.
 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
0 1
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Batseba.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
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