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Male Name
Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Benkt [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Beinkt
Male
Bengtsen
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Bengtson
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Bengtssen
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Bengtsson
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Bengtssøn
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Bengtsøn
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Bengtzen
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Bengtzon
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Female
Bengtsdatter
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Bengtsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Bengt
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Genitive: |
Bengts
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Bengt
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Genitive: |
Bengtin
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Partitive: |
Bengtiä
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Bengt
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Genitive: |
Bengts
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Bengt
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Genitive: |
Bengts
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Name Days
Norway
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21 March
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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21 March
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Sweden
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21 March
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 113,406 people were named Bengt (percentage of first or only given name: 92 %) [8]
- Bengt was a heavy storm in Norway in October 2003.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[10] |
|
39590 |
87675 |
0 |
14 |
39590 |
87661 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
4098 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
4098 |
Denmark[12] |
|
245 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
245 |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
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0 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
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1642 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
1642 |
n.a. |
Greenland[15] |
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0 |
0 |
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. |
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Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Bengt (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables