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Female Name
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of Edith [1] [2] [3]
2) Pet form of Dorotea [1]
3) Short form of Judith [4]
4) Short form of Benedikte [2] [3]
5) Short form of names with the first element Did- / Diet- / Dit- (see ÞJOÐ) [2] [3]
Related Names
See also Didde, Dide, Dita, Dittan
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 155 people were named Ditte (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[10] |
|
7146 |
n.a. |
7146 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
|
315 |
457 |
315 |
457 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
51 |
n.a. |
51 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[13] |
|
10 |
23 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
4 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
28 |
n.a. |
28 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [11][10][15][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
- ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
- ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables