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Berta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Bert and short form of names ending with -berta -berte -bertina -bertine or beginning with Bert- (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

2) Short form of Birgitta [1] [2] [3] [7]

Related Names

Berta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Berte ♀
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 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian
Bertea ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Bertha ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Berthe ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Berti ♀
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 Swedish
Bertie ♀ Swedish
Bertta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Bertte ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Berty ♀ Swedish
Bette ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Bärta ♀
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 Swedish
Bærta ♀
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 Old Swedish
Pertta ♀
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 Finish
Pertukka ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also Barta, Bereta, Berteline, Bertina, Betty, Birte, Pepe, Peta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bertuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Bertudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Berta
Genitive: Bertas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Berta
Accusative: Bertu
Dative: Bertu
Genitive: Bertu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Berta
Genitive: Bertan
Partitive: Bertaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Berta
Accusative: Bertu
Dative: Bertu
Genitive: Bertu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Berta
Genitive: Bertas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Berta
Genitive: Bertas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

31 August

Norway Norway

31 August

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

24 August

Sweden Sweden

8 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 16485 people were named Berta (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [12]

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[16]
510 1600 510 1600 0 0
Finland Finland[17]
n.a.
 1097
n.a.
 1097 0 0
Denmark Denmark[18]
144
n.a.
 143
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[19]
54 81
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[20]
0 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[21]
184
n.a.
 184
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Berta (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Berta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Berta (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  15. ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  16. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  17. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  18. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  19. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  20. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  21. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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