Benedikta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Benedicta (see also -a) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Benedicta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Benediktuson Iceland

Female

Benediktudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Benedikta
Genitive: Benediktas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Benedikta
Genitive: Benediktan
Partitive: Benediktaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Benedikta
Accusative: Benediktu
Dative: Benediktu
Genitive: Benediktu
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Benedikta
Genitive: Benediktas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 423 people were named Benedikta (percentage of first or only given name: 6 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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 Iceland[7]
36 54
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
8 102 8 102 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
7
n.a.
7
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
15
n.a.
15 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
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. Swedish Regional Distribution for Benedikta (f)


References

  1. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no