Bengt

Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Variant form (Swedish) of Benkt

Related Names

See Beinkt

Patronyms

• Swedish: Bengtsson (♂), Bengtson (♂), Bengtzon (♂), Bengtsdotter (♀)
• Danish: Bengtsen (♂), Bengtsdatter (♀)
• Norwegian: Bengtson (♂), Bengtsson (♂), Bengtsen (♂), Bengtzon (♂)

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Bengt
Genitive:	Bengts

- Finnish
Nominative:	Bengt
Genitive:	Bengtin
Partitive:	Bengtiä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Bengt
Genitive:	Bengts

- Swedish
Nominative:	Bengt
Genitive:	Bengts

Name Days

Norway

21 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

21 March

Sweden

21 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 14th century
  
• Denmark: 15th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1920-1939
• Sweden: 1930-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Østfold and Nord-Noreg (ca. 1930-1960)
  
• Denmark: København

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		0	11	46511	94001
Norway		0	n.a.	1720	n.a.
Denmark		0	n.a.	308	n.a.
Finland		0	0	n.a.	4001
#: 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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

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