Brit

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Britt [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Britta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Britarson Iceland

Female

Britardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Brit
Genitive: Brits
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Brit
Genitive: Britin
Partitive: Britiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Brit
Accusative: Brit
Dative: Brit
Genitive: Britar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Brit
Genitive: Brits
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Brit
Genitive: Brits

Name Day

Norway Norway

23 July

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&
Denmark Denmark[7]
528
n.a.
528
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
91 160 91 160 0 0
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
37
n.a.
37 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
5732
n.a.
5732
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Brit (f)


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no