Bodil f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Bodil m for the male version.

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland 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

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bodilarson Iceland
Bodilson Iceland

Female

Bodilardóttir Iceland
Bodildóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bodil
Genitive: Bodils
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bodil
Genitive: Bodilin
Partitive: Bodilia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bodil
Accusative: Bodil
Dative: Bodil
Genitive: Bodil / Bodilar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bodil
Genitive: Bodils
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bodil
Genitive: Bodils

Name Days

Norway Norway

17 June

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

9 February

Sweden Sweden

26 January

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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[9]
11222
n.a.
11222
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[10]
4573 7511 4573 7511 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
66 280
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
295
n.a.
291
n.a.
4
Iceland Iceland[13]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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]:Name statistics for Bodil (f)

Sources: [10] [9] [14] [12]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[14]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Bodil (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no