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Brigit
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Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Younger Celtic form of Brighid [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
2) Short form of Brigitte [7] [6]
Related Names
See Brigitta
Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Brigitarson |
|
Female
| Brigitardóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brigit |
| Genitive: | Brigits |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brigit |
| Accusative: | Brigiti |
| Dative: | Brigiti |
| Genitive: | Brigitar |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brigit |
| Genitive: | Brigits |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brigit |
| Genitive: | Brigits |
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& | |
| Sweden[8] |
  |
4 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[9] |
 |
9 | n.a. |
9 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway[11] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Iceland[12] |
  |
0 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[13] |
|
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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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Brigit.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1922)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/