Berge

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Birger [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Birgir

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bergesen Denmark Norway
Bergeson Norway
Bergessen Norway
Bergesson Norway
Bergessøn Norway
Bergesøn Norway

Female

Bergedatter Norway
Bergedotter Norway
Bergesdatter Denmark Norway
Bergesdotter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Berge
Genitive: Berges
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Berge
Genitive: Berges
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Berge
Genitive: Berges

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Berge Ragnar Furre (13 April 1937 – 11 January 2016), Norwegian historian, theologian and politician

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[6]
5 12 0 0 5 12
Denmark Denmark[7]
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
1
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
134
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
134
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Berge.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  4. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/