Bente

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Sami Sami
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish short form of Benedikte (see Benedicta) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Beinta
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Danish Faroese Norwegian
Bendte
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Danish
Benta
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
Bente
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Sami Swedish
Bentha
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Danish
Benthe
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Danish Norwegian Swedish

See also Bende, Benkta, Bentine

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
EY see Bentey

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bente
Genitive: Bentes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bente
Genitive: Benten
Partitive: Bentea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bente
Genitive: Bentes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bente
Genitive: Bentes

Name Days

Norway Norway

8 October

Sami Sami

21 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 170 people were named Bente (percentage of first or only given name: 83 %) [7]

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&
Denmark Denmark[8]
22786
n.a.
22786
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
483 706 483 702 0 4
Greenland Greenland[10]
15 28
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
35
n.a.
35 0 0
Iceland Iceland[12]
4 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
16065
n.a.
16065
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Bente (f) Sources: [9][8][13][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Bente (f) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Bente (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. details see Name Statistic tables