Birgitte

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Female Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Birgitta

Related Names

See Birgitta

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Birgitte
Genitive:	Birgittes

- Finnish
Nominative:	Birgitte
Genitive:	Birgiten / Birgitten
Partitive:	Birgitteä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Birgitte
Genitive:	Birgittes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Birgitte
Genitive:	Birgittes

Name Day

Norway

7 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 14th century
• Norway: 15th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • Top 7 in the 17th century in Nakskov
  • Top 11 in the 17th century in Sjælland
  • 1950-1969

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Sjælland
  • Østjylland
  • Vestjylland

Namesakes

• Karen Birgitte Federspiel (6 September 1925 – 2 February 2005), Danish actress
• Birgitte Price (née Bruun, 29 April 1934 – 17 July 1997), Danish actress
• Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982), Danish actres

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		14568	n.a.	14568	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		245	640	245	640	0	0
Greenland		36	104	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	94	n.a.	94	0	0
Iceland		3	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		n.a.	n.a.	2661	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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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend