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Female Name
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Bjǫrg [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Bjǫrg
Male
Bjargarson
|
|
Female
Bjargardóttir
|
|
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Bjørg
|
Genitive: |
Bjørgs
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Bjørg
|
Accusative: |
Bjørg
|
Dative: |
Bjørg
|
Genitive: |
Bjargar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Bjørg
|
Genitive: |
Bjørgs
|
Name Day
Norway
|
11 June
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional 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& |
---|
Denmark[7] |
|
429 |
n.a. |
426 |
n.a. |
3 |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
14 |
31 |
14 |
31 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[9] |
|
0 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[10] |
|
15103 |
n.a. |
15103 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
1 |
0 |
0 |
#: 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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [8][7][10][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [12]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables