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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Bodil m for the male version.
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish younger form of Bóthildr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
See Bóthildr
Male
Bodilarson
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Bodilson
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Female
Bodilardóttir
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Bodildóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Bodil
|
Genitive: |
Bodils
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Bodil
|
Genitive: |
Bodilin
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Partitive: |
Bodilia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Bodil
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Accusative: |
Bodil
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Dative: |
Bodil
|
Genitive: |
Bodil / Bodilar
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Bodil
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Genitive: |
Bodils
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Bodil
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Genitive: |
Bodils
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Name Days
Norway
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17 June
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Finland (Swedish Language)
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9 February
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Sweden
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26 January
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Bodil Louise Jensen Ipsen (30 August 1889 - 26 November 1964), Danish actress
- Bodil Koch (née Thastum, 25 October 1903 – 7 January 1972), Danish politician
- Bodil Valborg Karen Ellen Harries Kjer (2 September 1917 - 1 February 2003), Danish actress
- Bodil Malmsten (19 August 1944 - 5 February 2016), Swedish poet and novelist
Trivia
- Bodil was a heavy storm in Denmark in December 2013.
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[9] |
|
11222 |
n.a. |
11222 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
4573 |
7511 |
4573 |
7511 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[11] |
|
66 |
280 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
295 |
n.a. |
291 |
n.a. |
4 |
Iceland[13] |
|
1 |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
5388 |
n.a. |
5388 |
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. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[10][9][14][12]:
Sources: [10] [9] [14] [12]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[14]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no