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Herbert

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of the Old High German name Heribert [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Heribert

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Herbertinpoika Finland
Herbertsson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden

Female

Herbertintytär Finland
Herbertsdotter Sweden
Herbertsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Herbert
Genitive: Herberts
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Herbert
Accusative: Herbert
Dative: Herberti
Genitive: Herberts
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Herbert
Genitive: Herbertin
Partitive: Herbertiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Herbert
Accusative: Herbert
Dative: Herbert / Herberti
Genitive: Herberts
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Herbert
Genitive: Herberts
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Herbert
Genitive: Herberts

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

16 March

Sweden Sweden

16 March

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: [ˈhærːbɛʈ] (key)

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Herbert Pundik (also Nahum Pundak, * 23 September 1927), Danish journalist and author
  • Herbert Blomstedt (born 11 July 1927), Swedish conductor

Trivia


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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[9]
623 5484 0 0 623 5484
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 1555 0 0
n.a.
 1555
Denmark Denmark[11]
284
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 284
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
46 69
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
100
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 100
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Herbert.


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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