Berger

From Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Nameguide note desktop.png

Nameguide note mobile.png

Rate this name:

5.00
(one vote)



Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish

Advertisement:


Origin and Meaning

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

Related Names

See Birgir

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bergersen Denmark Norway
Bergerson Norway Sweden
Bergerssen Norway
Bergersson Norway
Bergerssøn Norway
Bergersøn Norway

Female

Bergerdatter Norway
Bergersdatter Norway
Bergersdotter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Berger
Genitive: Bergers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Berger
Genitive: Bergers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Berger
Genitive: Bergers

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 15 people were named Berger (percentage of first or only given name: 13 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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]
0 14 0 3 0 11
Denmark Denmark[7]
2
n.a.
0
n.a.
2
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
3 0 0
n.a.
3
Norway Norway[9]
33
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
33
n.a.
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 Berger.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  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. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/