Birta

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Faroese
Icelandic
Swedish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Danish short form of Birgitta

2) Danish variant form of Berta

Related Names

See Birte

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Birtuson

Female

Birtudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Birta
Genitive:	Birtas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Birta
Accusative:	Birtu
Dative:	Birtu
Genitive:	Birtu

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Birta
Accusative:	Birtu
Dative:	Birtu
Genitive:	Birtu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Birta
Genitive:	Birtas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Birta
Genitive:	Birtas

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: In the census of 1801 (Snæfellsnessýsla)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: -1950s

Trivia

• Birta is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		482	852	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		71	n.a.	71	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		17	24	17	24	0	0
Finland		n.a.	2	n.a.	2	0	0
Norway		15	n.a.	15	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

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