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Usage
Old Norse
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Origin and Meaning
![sea trout](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bachforelle_Zeichnung.jpg/200px-Bachforelle_Zeichnung.jpg) |
sea trout
Image by US Fish and Wildlife Service,[1] License: public domain |
Old Norse name and byname
1) Old Norse birtingr = 'sea-trout' (fish) [2] [3] [4]
2) Old Norse birtingr = 'capable', 'smart', 'illustrious man' [2] [4]
3) Bjartr with an -ingr-ending, meaning 'bright one' [5] [6]
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[8] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[11] |
|
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 Birtingr.
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by US Fish and Wildlife Service, source & license
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/