Bjørg

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Bjǫrg [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Bjǫrg

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bjargarson Faroe Islands

Female

Bjargardóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bjørg
Genitive: Bjørgs
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Bjørg
Accusative: Bjørg
Dative: Bjørg
Genitive: Bjargar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bjørg
Genitive: Bjørgs

Name Day

Norway Norway

11 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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 Denmark[7]
429
n.a.
426
n.a.
3
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
14 31 14 31 0 0
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
15103
n.a.
15103
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland 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

Name statistics for Bjørg (f) Sources: [8][7][10][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Bjørg (f) Sources: [12]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Bjørg (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. details see Name Statistic tables