Walborg

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish form of Walburg [1]

2) Creative spelling of Valborg [2] [3]

Related Names

See Valborg

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Walborg
Genitive: Walborgs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Walborg
Genitive: Walborgin
Partitive: Walborgia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Walborg
Genitive: Walborgs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Walborg
Genitive: Walborgs

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 410 people were named Walborg (percentage of first or only given name: 32 %) [4]

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[6]
16 120 16 120 0 0
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
71
n.a.
71 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
1
n.a.
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
29
n.a.
29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/