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Benny f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Benny m for the male version.

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names beginning with Ben-, especially Bente and Benedikte (see Benedicta) [1] [2] [3]

2) Short form of names beginning with Bern-, especially Bernhardine [1]

Related Names

Benna ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Benni ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Bennie ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Benny ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Benný ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

Combinations

Name
Element    		 Example
EY see Benney
SY see Bensy

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Benny
Genitive: Bennys
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Benny
Genitive: Bennys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Benny
Genitive: Bennys

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 December

Further Information

In Norway, Benny is only allowed as a first name together with another female name, which is more common [1]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 99 people were named Benny f (percentage of first or only given name: 74 %) [4]

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&
Sweden Sweden[5]
6247 10391 12 26 6235 10365
Denmark Denmark[6]
7067
n.a.
 100
n.a.
 6967
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 497
n.a.
 3
n.a.
 494
Greenland Greenland[8]
20 40
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
363
n.a.
 81
n.a.
 282
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Benny.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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