Bríet

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Icelandic variant form of Brit

Related Names

See Britta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bríetarson

Female

Bríetardóttir

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Bríet
Accusative:	Bríeti
Dative:	Bríeti
Genitive:	Bríetar

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: 16th century

Predominant Regional Usage

• Iceland:
  • Ísafjarðarsýsla (in the census of 1703)
  • Skagafjarðarsýsla (in the census of 1801)

Namesakes

• Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir, Icelandic feminist (1856 - 1940), founder of the first women's magazine in Iceland Kvennablaðið.

Trivia

• Bríet is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		266	378	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Denmark		4	n.a.	4	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		0	3	0	3	0	0
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland		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.

 

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