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Kirsten

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Danish and Norwegian variant form of Kirstin (see also -sten) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Kirstin

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kirstenarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Kirstenardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kirsten
Genitive: Kirstens
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Kirsten
Accusative: Kirstena
Dative: Kirsteni
Genitive: Kirstenar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kirsten
Genitive: Kirstenin
Partitive: Kirsteniä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kirsten
Accusative: Kirstenu
Dative: Kirstenu
Genitive: Kirstenar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kirsten
Genitive: Kirstens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kirsten
Genitive: Kirstens

Name Day

Norway Norway

13 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Kirsten Munk (6 July 1598 – 19 April 1658), Danish noble, second spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark
  • Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962), Norwegian opera singer
  • Kirsten Hansteen (née Landmark Moe, 5 January 1903 – 17 November 1974), Norwegian editor and liberarian and politician (Minister of Social Affairs), the first female member of cabinet in Norway
  • Kirsten Elise Myklevoll (25 September 1928 – 11 December 1996), Norwegian politician

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[10]
39076
n.a.
 39076
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
645 956 645 954 0 2
Greenland Greenland[12]
141 363
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 209
n.a.
 209 0 0
Iceland Iceland[14]
15 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
7166
n.a.
 7166
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

Name statistics for Kirsten (f) Sources: [11][10][15][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Kirsten (f) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Kirsten (f)


References

  1. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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