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Ruth

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

German and English spelling of Rut [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Rut

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rutharson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Ruthardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ruth
Genitive: Ruths
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Ruth
Accusative: Ruth
Dative: Ruth
Genitive: Ruthar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ruth
Genitive: Ruthin
Partitive: Ruthia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ruth
Accusative: Ruth
Dative: Ruth
Genitive: Ruthar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ruth
Genitive: Ruths
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ruth
Genitive: Ruths

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

8 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ruth Anlaug Ryste (born 24 July 1932), Norwegian trade unionist and politician

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[12]
4416 15007 4416 15005 0 2
Denmark Denmark[13]
8371
n.a.
 8371
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
 2928
n.a.
 2928 0 0
Iceland Iceland[15]
66 190
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
54 163
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
6566
n.a.
 6566
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 Ruth (f) Sources: [12][13][17][14]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Ruth (f) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Ruth (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ruth (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Ruth (f)


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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