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Bengt
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Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Origin and Meaning
Variant form (Swedish) of Benkt [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Beinkt
Patronyms
- Swedish: Bengtsson (♂), Bengtson (♂), Bengtzon (♂), Bengtsdotter (♀)
- Danish: Bengtsen (♂), Bengtsdatter (♀)
- Norwegian: Bengtson (♂), Bengtsson (♂), Bengtsen (♂), Bengtzon (♂) [6]
Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengts |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengtin |
| Partitive: | Bengtiä |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengts |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bengt |
| Genitive: | Bengts |
Name Days
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21 March |
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21 March |
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21 March |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Bengt Ryno Berndtsson (26 January 1933 – 4 June 2015), Swedish football winger nicknamed Fölet = 'the Foal'
- Bengt Robert Holmström, * 18 April 1949, Finlandswedish economist and Nobel laureate
(Economics, 2016) - Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson, * 21 May 1934, Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1982)
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[8] |
  |
0 | 12 | 45165 | 92795 |
| Norway[9] |
  |
0 | n.a. | 1690 | n.a. |
| Denmark[10] |
 |
0 | n.a. | 279 | n.a. |
| Finland[11] |
|
0 | 0 | n.a. | 4039 |
| #: 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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Sources: [12]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
- ↑ Olav Veka: Norsk etternamnleksikon (2001)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables