Herbjørn

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish and younger form of Hærbiǫrn

Related Names

See Hærbiǫrn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Herbjørnarson
Herbjørnsen
Herbjørnson
Herbjørnssen
Herbjørnsson
Herbjørnssøn
Herbjørnsøn

Female

Herbjørnardóttir
Herbjørnsdatter
Herbjørnsdóttir

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Herbjørn
Accusative:	Herbjørn / Herbirni
Dative:	Herbirni
Genitive:	Herbjarnar / Herbjørns

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Herbjørn
Genitive:	Herbjørns

Name Day

Norway

14 January

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 12th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1935-1940

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Telemark (Tinn)
  • Austlandet

Namesakes

• Herbjørn Sørebø (25 April 1933 – 29 March 2003), Norwegian journalist

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		0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		158	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	158	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland		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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Herbjørn.