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Benedicta

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Female form of Benedictus (see also -a) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Benadikta ♀
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 Faroese
Benedichte ♀
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 Danish Norwegian
Benedicta ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Benedicte ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Benedikta ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Swedish
Benedikte ♀
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 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish
Benidikta ♀
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 Icelandic
Bennedikte ♀
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Bænadikta ♀
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 Faroese

See also Bendicta, Bene, Benedictine, Benete, Benita, Benkta, Benny, Bernadikte, Dikta

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Benedicta
Genitive: Benedictas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Benedicta
Genitive: Benedictan
Partitive: Benedictaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Benedicta
Genitive: Benedictas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Benedicta
Genitive: Benedictas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 54 people were named Benedicta (percentage of first or only given name: 7 %) [5]

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[7]
28 130 28 130 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
9
n.a.
 9
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 17
n.a.
 17 0 0
Norway Norway[10]
18
n.a.
 18
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Benedicta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Benedicta (f)


References

  1. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  3. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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