Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Brigitta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of the Celtic name Brighid

1) Celtic briganti / brig = 'high', 'mighty', 'exalted' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

2) Celtic brigh = 'strength', 'force' [10] (less certain)

Related Names

Bregitte ♀
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Bridget ♀
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Bridgett ♀
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Bridgette ♀
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Brigette ♀
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Brigget ♀
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 Icelandic
Brigida ♀
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Brígiða ♀
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 Old Norse
Brigit ♀
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Brigita ♀
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Brigite ♀
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Brigith ♀
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Brigitha ♀
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 Danish Swedish
Brigithe ♀
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Brigitt ♀
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 Danish Swedish
Brigitta ♀
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Brigitte ♀
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Brikitta ♀
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Brygida ♀
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Prikitta ♀
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 Finish

For more variant forms see also Bibi Biggi Billa Birgitta Britta Gitta

See also Brictius

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Brigittuson Iceland

Female

Brigittudóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see BRITT and BIRG (name elements)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Brigitta
Genitive: Brigittas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Brigitta
Genitive: Brigitan
Partitive: Brigittaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Brigitta
Accusative: Brigittu
Dative: Brigittu
Genitive: Brigittu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Brigitta
Genitive: Brigittas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Brigitta
Genitive: Brigittas

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&
Sweden Sweden[13]
109 226 109 226 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
89
n.a.
 89
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 139
n.a.
 139 0 0
Iceland Iceland[16]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
36
n.a.
 36
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Brigitta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Brigitta (f)


References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  5. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  9. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  10. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  11. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  13. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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