Benedikta

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Icelandic
Finnish
Danish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Benedicta (see also -a)

Related Names

See Benedicta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Benediktuson

Female

Benediktudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Benedikta
Genitive:	Benediktas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Benedikta
Genitive:	Benediktan
Partitive:	Benediktaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Benedikta
Accusative:	Benediktu
Dative:	Benediktu
Genitive:	Benediktu

- Swedish
Nominative:	Benedikta
Genitive:	Benediktas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: In the census of 1845

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1865-1919

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Halland (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 423 people were named Benedikta (percentage of first or only given name: 6 %)

• Benedikta is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		36	54	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		8	102	8	102	0	0
Denmark		7	n.a.	7	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	15	n.a.	15	0	0
Greenland		0	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	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 Benedikta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.