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Betty
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Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
1) English pet form of Elisabet [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
| Betti | ♀ |   |
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| Bettie | ♀ |   |
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| Betty | ♀ |  |
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| Bettý | ♀ | |
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| Petti | ♀ |  |
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See also Bet
Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Bettyarson |
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Female
| Bettyardóttir |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Betty |
| Genitive: | Bettys |
| - Faroese |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Betty |
| Accusative: | Betty |
| Dative: | Betty |
| Genitive: | Bettyar |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Betty |
| Genitive: | Bettyn |
| Partitive: | Bettyä |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Betty |
| Genitive: | Bettys |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Betty |
| Genitive: | Bettys |
Name Day
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8 March |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Sweden: 1673 [1] [5]
- Norway: 1790 (Kristiansund) [3]
- Denmark: 19th century [6] [7]
- Greenland: 1962 [9]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Betty Maria Carolina Pettersson (14 September 1838 – 7 February 1885), Swedish teacher, first official female university student in Sweden in 1871
- Betty Anna Maria Nansen (née Müller, 19 March 1873 – 15 March 1943), Danish actress and theatre director
- Betty Mathilde Hennings (née Schnell, 26 October 1850 - 27 October 1939), Danish actress
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[11] |
|
1093 | 2528 | 1093 | 2528 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[12] |
|
1688 | n.a. |
1688 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
753 | n.a. |
753 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenland[14] |
  |
5 | 12 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Iceland[15] |
  |
4 | 10 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[16] |
|
408 | n.a. |
408 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Betty (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no